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PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. § 

The author of " Parthenon " has been lately represented ^ 

in the Pan-Electric controversy, as an ignorant and vul- A 

gar person, bnt the following extracts, which we take from d^ 

his New York publisher's notice appended to the second T 

edition of his " Greek Slave," will indicate that his polit- ^ 

ical enemies have, perhaps, underrated him : ¥ 

" The most Rev. Archbishop introduced him to the audience * * y 
very eloquent." — Catholic Telegraph. Q 

" Introduced by Rev. Wm. Quinn, of St. Peter's Church, to a large j^ 

and appreciative audience. Was frequently interrupted by loud ap- T 

plause. Able and erudite." — iV. Y. Herald. P 

)^ " Great ability as a lecturer — eloquent — interesting — popular." — |5) 

Bev. I. T. Eecker, Editor " Catholic World:' 1 

" Great success." " Unusually delighted audience." " Eloquent T 

and live man." — N. Y. Freeman's Journal, ^ 

"Maintained a learned and subtle argument."— i\r. Y. Times. ^ 

"Rising to the loftiest flights of eloquence."— i\7ew Orleans Times. (^ 

" Humorous, pathetic and impassioned; evidently born to move Y. 

men." — New Orleans Picayune. (p 

"Introduced by Rev. Thos. Foley, V. G., the most Rev. Archbishop ^ 
Bpaulding, the Bishop of North Carolina, and about twenty of the Jjv 
Rev. clergy on the stage. * * Frank and highly intellectual." — ^ 
Baltimore Mirror. O 

" Graceful manner ; rich imagery ; eloquent delivery ; highly ornate ^ 
and classic." — St. Louis Times. JL 

" Nous avons rarement rencontre dans un m^me homme autant des ^ 
qualites qui font le veritable orateur. Voix flexible et sonore, gestes ^(( 
admirable de naturel, style plein d'images et de nerf, et un coBur con- 
tenu d'ou falait le sentiment avec une force qui souleve I'auditoire et 
I'entraine absolument. — Nouveau Monde, Montreal. 

" Finished speaker. * * * Manner, gestures, antecedents and 
honesty all conspired to interest and edify." — Cincinnati Telegraph. 

_" An immense audience assembled at Greenlaw Opera House to hear 
him. * * * Spell-bound for two hours." — Memphis Appeal. 

" Edifice packed * * * may he receive as hearty a welcome 
wherever he may go as has been given him in New York." -N. Y. 
Tablet. 

" A fine intellectual and oratorical eQ"ort." — Newark Register. 

" Introduced by Bishop McQuade. Spoke extemporaneously, with 
great force and eloquence." — Uochester Union and Advertiser. 

"Handled his subject logically and powerfully * * * with a 
concisent'ss and clearness rarely heard." — Wheeling Daily Register. 



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" He possesses, in an eminent degree, the peculiar faculty of fixing 
the attention and interesting tlie feeling of his hearers. From the 
commencement to the close, his discourses are a succession of brilliant 
and sparkling thoughts, with occasional outbursts of impassiouate 
declamation." 

" A beautiful poem, indicating the author's learning and refinement." 
—^. Y. Tablet: 

"The Southern press has been for several weeks filled with lauda- 
tory notices of this poem " — Mobile Advertiser and Register. 

" A casket of rare gems, in the guise of a poem, presented to the pub- 
lic, which we have just finished reading. Our limits will not permit 
a merited review of this lengthy and brilliant production, but we would 
say to those whose souls are attuned to the warblings of genuine poesy, 
to read and admire it for themselves. It is a story of intense passion, 
and from beginning to end is luminous with genius In this thrilling 
narrative is blended, with a master's hand, the travels of the author in 
the Mediterranean sea, and his impressions of Italy, Sardinia, Carth- 
age, &c. The apostrophe to Italy is very nearly inimitable in its sub- 
limity aud.pathos. 'Blue domed and beautiful,' the poet's eye sees 
her glory as we do the pomp of riven sunset clouds, after the storm 
has spent its fury. We are literally baptized in a sea of ineffable gran- 
deur as we are lioated back to tlie shrines of ' the world's dead mis- 
tress,' and when our ardor cools, still, as the author expresses it, 

' Her thousand colors on our spirits lie. 
Soft as the stars in yonder tranquil sky. ' " 

— Selma Times. 

" Spoken highly of by the American press. — London Tablet. 

We lind, in another publication, that the author was 
lately commended to President Cleveland for the office of 
assistant attorney in the Department of Justice, by " His 
Grace, the Archbishop of Baltimore, Primate of the 
United States, and now His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons ; 
His Grace, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, and their 
Lordships, the Bishop of Albany and Buffalo, together 
with many other dignitaries, both in Church and State; 
thegreatest of living Generals ; Senators; Congressmen; 
presidents and professors of colleges ; the most eminent 
of lawyers, among them Hon. Arthur McArthur, of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and the lead- 
ing members of the Washington bar, where the author 
has practised law for the last ten years." 



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PREFSCE TO " PARTHENON.' 




This Poem, in four parts, describes Parthenon and the surrounding man- 
ors — her own external beauty, and inner life : giving at the same time, a 
sketch of the four Seasons, one in each part. 

Whether poetry or not, many of the verses inculcate morality, and may 
rise above the ordinary sensational sermon. 

I leave itjn the groves of Parthenon, where many an unseen flower offers 
incense to the skies !— at any rate being finished at midnight on Xmas eve, 
it will last as long as the Xmas tree, to cheer the home it describes ; Exalt- 
ing the Blessed Virgin, while it honors the Catholic Church, and defends 
Christianity. 



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Without their knowledge, consent or approval, I take the liberty (but 
with reverence and affection) of dedicating these verses to 



THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, 



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"What!" exclaims poor IngersoU, "dedicate your poem, seemingly 
American, to a foreign society, and to America's worst enemy ?" Not to 
"a foreign society," but to the daring heroes who once owned, by right of 
h, discovery, the greater part of the United States and Canada; who threw 
open their hospitable doors to your fathers and prohibited persecution, 
gave peaceful homes to the persecuted Quaker and all the waters of the 
Chesapeake to the most enthusiastic Baptist. Yes, the Jesuits. Their ^ 
bleeding steps may still be traced from Chesapeake Bay to the Rocky 
Mountains, and from the Lake of the Woods to the Gulf of Mexico. Not 
" America's worst enemy," but her best friend. I behold them flying from 
nation to nation, like Joseph, Jesus and Mary in their flight to Egypt. 
They represent " the Holy Family," and should be borne on your shoulders 
to make the picture complete. The roar of the kingly lion has never 
deterred them, and they will not now regard his skin, even when it seems 
to bray ! He may browse unrestrained on the greenest grass, but the stars 
shine on above him forever. 

Venerable Fathers, what mighty dynasties have fallen, what crowns and 
sceptres have mingled with the dust, since your glorious founder, St. Igna- 
tius Loyola, lead the forlorn hope of Christianity, learning and civilization ! 
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His apostles gave to the Oriental world — to China, India, Japan, Thibet 
and Burmah — a jewel noore precious than all their Khoinoors ! 

They checked the madness of Europe in the sixteenth century, trod the 
burning sands of Africa, and penetrated the wilds of America. 

Persecuted in one land, they flew^to another ; but flew only to herald their 
persecuted master; or died embracing the crucifix with "smiles of triumph! 
Fly on, angelic host ! — holier than the angels, in " the new nature " given 
you. Fly on like eagles, over continents and rivers, lakes, oceans, moun- 
tains, to the skies! How do kings still tremble before you, while wicked 
nations and bad men exclaim : " Let us alone. What have we to do with 
Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth !'' for this is the sole thought of unclean 
souls ! 

Even while I thus presume to address you, a voice comes from "The 
Ancient of Days" — from yon "Eternal City:" 



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" Sint hae litterae Nostrae testes amoris, quo iugitur prosecuti sumus et 
prosequimur inclytam Societatem lesu Praedecessoribus Nostris ac Nobis 
ipsis devotissimam, fecundam, turn sanctunoniae turn sapientiae laude 
praestantium virorum nutricem, solidae sanaeque altricem doctrinae ; quae 
graves licet propter iustitiam persecutioues porpessa, nunquam in exco- 
lenda vinea Domini alacri invictoquc anirao adlaborare desistit. Pergat 
igitur bene merita Societas lesu, ab ipso Concilio Trideutino commeudata 
et a praedecessoribus Nostris praeconio laudum cumulata, pergat in tanta 
hominum perversilate contra lesu Christi Ecclesiam suura persequi institu- 
tum ad maiorem Dei gloriam senipiternamque animarum salutem ; pergat 
suo ministerio in sacris expeditionibus infideles el haereticos ad veritatis 
lucem^ traducere et revocare, iuventutem christiauis virtutibus bonisque 
artibus imbuere, philosophicas ac theologicas disciplinas ad mentem Ange- 
lici Doctoris tradere. Interea dilectissimam Nobis Societatem lesu pera- 
manter complectentes, Societatis eiusdem Praeposito Generali et eius 
Vicario singulisque aluninis Apostolicam impertimus benedictionem. 

Datum Romae, apud 8. Petrum, sub annulo Piscatoris, die XIII Julii, 
MDCCCLXXXVI, Pontificatus, Nostri anno nouo. 

M. Card. Ledochowski. 



Te Watchmen on the ramparts of heaven, behold your work of centuries ! 
Look down on Parthenon, the last of your benefactions ! Behold " My 
Maryland," where your wisdom first proclaimed Religious Liberty ! Par- 
don her faults and guard her sacred homes ! Not Maryland alone, nor St. 
Mary's cross-teeming valleys, nor Blackstone's Island, still burning with 
your sacred footprints, could circumscribe your charity. The thunders of 
Niagara speak to a mighty nation, and remind it of your devotion to the 
Iriquois! Her smiling rainbows, at the footstool of power, recall the in- 
cense ye offered to St. Lawrence, while your mother, the Catholic Church, 
still spreads sublimer rainbows above the stormy elements of Humanity ! 

Boston remembers your embassy from Montreal, in the darkest hour of 
the colonies, when ye came to meet our Jesuit, the mitred Carroll, in the 
interest of bleeding patriotism, and Catholic soldiers — Kosiusko, La Fay- 
ette, Pulaski, Baron de Kalb— leading by land, and Barry on the sea, each ■ 
hilt twining the rosary about its cross and pointing the brave to victory ! 
What your counsels, your Masses, and your prayers effected eternity may 
reveal: for your own and kindred orders in the Catholic Church had pre- 
served for Patrick Henry the whole fabric of Common Law, the Equity of 
the Civil Law, and the sacred volume which taught him to exclaim : " The 
race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. There is a God who 
presides over the destinies of nations. I care not, sirs, what other men 
may choose, but as for me, give me Liberty, or give me Death !" 4 

The Mississippi, discovered by your daring brotherhood — especially La 
Salle, Marquet and Joliet — still bears to millions the fragrance of your 
sacrifice, and hundreds of towns and cities and rivers that glitter in the 
setting sun perpetuate your names. 



" The meanest rill, the mightiest river. 
Kolls mingling with your fame forever!" 



P Then pardon, illustrious Fathers, in this dedication the presumption of 
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your own humility and minor offices invite it. Did you not watch over my 
father's boyhood in yonder classic temple, then so humble, but now adorn- 
ing a nation's capital ? The same halls have communicated their charity to 
thousands, who bore it to the multitude, without embracing your creed, 
which ye guard so sacredly, but obtrude on no one, lest they should tram- 
ple it under foot. Behold a youthful Corcoran, now sitting at the feet of 
your Gamaliels in Georgetown, now kindling the torch of his benevolence 
at your sacred altars, to shine upon the earthquake at Charleston or to pale 
the fires of Chicago ; to light up the world of art for the multitude, blessing 
the poor with painting, sculpture and poetry ; or bearing the author of 
" Home, Sweet Home " from the ruins of ancient Carthage, to lay him on a 
mother's bosom in America! Did not the same classic halls inspire my 4 
sons with your devotion to letters and your love of truth ? Ye have jj 
blessed ray home at Parthenon by your presence, and touched its jewels J^ 
with your sanctity — ^ 

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Automic as the sun. <^ 

Yet sparkling- as the dews of heaven. 
And raeltlna- into one— 

With such a gem I ask for nothing more— 

My heaven and earth in one bright Khoinoorl 

With you to bless us. and a conscience clear ; 

I sing the changing seasons of the year ! 



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Spring. 

Sweet Spring sat listening to her feathered throng, 

While gazed upon her face, the violet blue ; J^ 

The redbird trembled with voluptuous song ^fc 

To the young flowers — for he had learned to woo, ^» 

And taught rae, Leila, how to sing for you. ^m 

Summer. ^ 

m Then came bright Summer — we were one: W 

§P The stock dove cooed, from many a stately tree; ^^ 

w Each flower stood listening in the noonday sun, W 

^ Un visited by humming bird or bee — W 

W Chained by the loving songs, I sang to Thee. ^r 



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Were quivering to the blast, or haply strewn \ 

On melancholy graves. Her rustling sheaves, ^ 

C And chirping insects — mournful e'en at noon — ^^^ 

k Gave, to my harp, its melancholy tune. 

Winter. 

^Tis now dread Winter clad in shroud of snow; 

Yon kneeling snow-bird asks a paltry meal, 

In isolated chirpings, sad and low, 

Making to Heaven his last appeal : 

So chirps my harp ; and so to Heaven I kneel ! 

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m^ Parthenon. 

^1 Earth, at this season, enters Virgo, which leads and inter- 

^^ prets the minor galaxies, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius. 

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1^^ Flying around the Sun, tliro' boundless space, 

^11 Earth sees him more intent upon her face, 

m Blushes in beauty, and displays her charms, 

H^ While Virgo's jewels flash upon her arms; Ba 

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^§ She whispers to the panting Earth : " Beware! cs 

E3 " Your safety lies in sacrament and prayer. Ea 

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E3 " E'er prophet spake, or raptured minstrel sung. ^| 

Ea " Noah came forth, from God's own brightness, blind,t ^-^ 

E3 " And gave the Zodiac, to teach mankind. ^^ 

II " Leo, the mighty, and the Virgin true, HI 

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" Beheld me gazing on enraptured Spring, E3 

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"My benefactions ever more the same. E3 

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represented her as carrying branches and corn in her arms. Even the Chinese j^^ 

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" Now Thetis, then Aphrodite awhile, || 

" All Heaven and Earth rejoicing in my smile. || 

"Pallas Athene; — Parthenon sublime || 

" And Iris rose upon the wings of time ; H 

" Chaldean first beheld her wings unfurled, || 

" With seven colors shining on the world — || 

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"^ " Seven sacraments to light the very grave !* |a 

" Chaldean Shepherds o'er the mountains trod, || 

" Saluted Mary and adored their God ! || 

^^ " Tho' new the name — all men had worshiped me, || 

^^ " The light of earth, and glory of the sea — || 

^^ " A Yirgin blessed with heaven's own purity ! || 

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P.3 " But still this image rested on the heart ; Ea 

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1^ " O Justice ! looking down from heaven sublime, 

|.^ " They clutch at stars, and climb the very skies, 

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^^ {columnis septem) et 3.6. va.(sma.Q.\v\ta.t\a: * * * * Venite, comediteiJaweffimeum, 
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" Tho' tender mercies from my bosom flow, 
" Till myriad constellations lost in one 
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Parthenon— Part I. 

Spring. 

Now the red maple kisses the blue skye, 
Peach blossoms scent the river, and the shore; 
Ten thousand beauties break upon the eye, 
And the bluebird builds her cottage at ray door ; 
Her songs of sweetness emulating mine, 
To " Home, sweet home," and Parthenon divine. 

All nature smiles, but April showers, soon 

May cloud her beauty ; or returning night 

Snatch it from Parthenon ; but the sweet moon 

Shall fill yon valley with a flood of light ; 

And the stars sing on, as they were singing here,* 

When Eve was beautiful and Earth without a tear ! 

Then pause a moment, and attend my song. 
O, ever changing Nature — sad or bright — 
My own capricious Beauty ! how I long 
To clasp thee with a lover's fond delight ; 
To hold thee with a Seraph's pure embrace, 
And gaze forever on thy matchless face ! 

Now in sweet sunshine, now in clouds — Ah me! 
With roses on thy bosom, or a crown of thorn, 
Thou art more than beautiful ; and must be 
My heart's own idol, noon, and night, and morn. 



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We met this morning, when thy robe of green, 
Resplendent with its dew drops (fairer far 
Than tawdry diamonds) scarcely could be seen, 
For shadows waiting on the morning Star, 
That crowned my Beautiful ; but vanished soon, 
"When thou didst put aside thy crescent moon. 

That crown and crescent, gently laid aside, 
Ten thousand songsters with enraptured strain, 
Salute their Queen — Heaven's own Mysterious Bride !' 
And the whole world is beautiful again. 
For Mary — like, from Bethlehem, you greet. 
Wise men, with incense, falling at your feet. 

In every land, from western mountain wild. 
To gorgeous City and the storied East, 
Wise men, with offerings to the Holy Child, 
Invite the Pilgrim to a heavenly feast ; 



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♦The doctrine of celestial harmony, wa;^ common to all the nations of the East, 
To this divine music Euripides alludes :— " Thee I invoke thou self-created Being, 
who gave birth to Nature, and whom light and darkness, and the whole train of 
globes encircle with eternal music." 

Look, how the floor of heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patinas of bright gold ; 
' There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st. 
But in his motion like an angel sings. 
Still quii'ing to the young eyed cherubim ; 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. 

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While Nature brings, tho' fallen once with man, 
The tears and spices of a Magdalen.* 

Nor these alone ; as well my humble cot, 
O, Nature, and its inmates kneel with Thee; 
Thy beauty hovering o'er each hallowed spot. 
In sunshine and in shower, each vine and tree, 
The verdant lawn, encircled by yon blue 
Eternal Mountains, kneel to Heaven with you. 

Here gentle lovers wander, sigh and talk, 
Followed by roses, with as tender sighs ; 
Sweet daflPodils enamel every walk. 
And violets look up, with soft blue eyes ; 
While gushes from the ground a fragrant flood, 
O, Hyacinthus, in thy purple blood ! 

That blood, sweet boy — Parthena's sacred art, 
Apollo bright, and Hercules the strong, . 
Diana's bow, and even Cupid's dart. 
What are they now ? an ill-remembered song — 
Gone with the warrior and his broken hilt — 
Scarce echoed by the temples to them built 1 

And so must pass ray Parthenon, with time ; 
These scenes of beauty all be marred ; but then 
ETERNAL TRUTH built in lofty rhyme. 
Thro' broken columns, and the homes of men. 
Shall still resound ; and every cadence sweet 
O, Parthenon, bring homage to thy feet. 

*"The whole creation grroaneth, and travaileth together until now." (St. 
Paul.) "All nature felt the wound." (Paradise Lost.) 
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mm With boug-hs and bees, above iny humble thatch ; 

^m While merry voices, with their murmurs blend, 

«^ And morning sings for joy. O let me catch 

ii A glimpse of angels, passing to thy view, 

^ And dwell sweet Nature, evermore with you ! 

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M^ Here let me dwell, on Parthenon with her, 

J^ Whom ancient M^sdom pictured J9wre and wise; 

Ji Fell at her maiden feet, a worshiper, 

i^ And built great temples, 'til they touched the skies 

4^ Parthena heit, but now an empty name, 

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Yon blue horizon, with cerulean wall, 

Of lovely mountains, holding in their arms 

Manors of olden time ; but more than all, 
^ Their memories, exalt thy matchless charms, 

4^ Become, O Parthenon ! a part of thee, 

^ And live forever in thy minstrelsy. 

Yon capitol, with battlements that loom. 

Like a lone city wedded to the skye : 

Now gazes on Mount Vernon's lonely tomb, 

And pays to Washington a pensive sigh ; 

Then turns to Parthenon, with smile as bright 

As the gay sunbeam dancing on its height ! ^ 

Thro' yonder gorges blue, more distant hills, jf 

Like monarch ironclads along the deep, JO 

♦The name may perish but man's ideal of Isis, Aphrodite and Parthena, must «^ 

live on while the soul of man survives. Not only Wisdom, but immaculate purity M^ 

U sipressed in this very word Aphrodite. 32 

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Or like an infant on her bosom sleep — ^b 

O, scenes of beauty, lift your heads and sing, ^^ 

My household angels beautiful as spring! w 

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Like pensive Autumn, with her hectic shades ^p 

Crowned with glories of the parting year — ^f 

Each floweret fadino- — lovelier as it fades, w 

O, far more beautiful than morning's glow, W 
►i^ Yon shadows lengthening in the vale below 

Those lengthening shadows, where the streamlets leap, 
Are lovelier for the streams so crystal bright, % 

More beautiful where yonder roses sleep, ^r 

W Eternal Morn upon the lap of Night! 

Those streams and roses but the counterpart 

Of your own loveliness, ye treasures of my heart! 

How oft, in yonder portico, at eve, 
^ Like angels' wings, its arches bending o'er. 

With songs of merriment your bosoms heave, 

Or tears salute some memory of yore! 
^f Then roused again, from transient tears oj* sighs, 

Ye light the hour, with laughter as it flies. 

O, songs divine! O, beauty singing there! 
Never did miser, more his treasures bless, 
Tremble to touch, or feel them half so dear, 
As my full heart, this world of loveliness! 

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II And can it be, that frosty wind may sweep, 
11 My flowers from Parthenon, to yonder steep! 

1521 Again they sing — now deep and solemn strain ! 

153 " Sweet ho7ne^^ perchance, or plaintive " auld lang syne" 

Ea Now classic mel.'^dy, or deep refrain, 

Ea From Handel, Fauvre, or llenbenstein — 

i.^ Swelling to Heaven, so beautiful and sweet, 

E.J o ' , ^ ' T 

^^ That unseen angels linger at their feet 1 % 

pj? Bending with Franklin, gazing on a spark, m 

pa Genius sublime, but unpretending; see! Ea 

ESI Or rather wisdom, soaring with the lark, ca 

Bi3 ihro all the reo-ions ot i hilosophy, rss 

C3 Where technic halls, with many a queer device, Ea 

i^ Learning;, and wit, from every land entice, E3 

m But fly, my harp, sublimity ; and sleep, H 

bI While vulgar doggerels to the banjo sing, || 

Ba Another subject from Perdition's deep, ^a 

En Offers a resjjite to thy lofty string, eSs 

Let meaner objects shuffle for a while — E3i 

Unworthy Genius or his gentle smile! ESi 

Lately yon senate in a venal rage,* || 

Crawled at his winged feet, to gather muck, ^| 

Became the by-word of a laughing age, ^|j 

And gave a world of merriment to "i-*McA;" — || 

He "girdled Earth, in forty seconds" — now, ci 

Let Pan Electric Statesmen, tell us hovp ?t Hsi 

Ea 

■ — — pj^ 

*Sacra fames auri. Sec Appendix. A, B. ^g 

tThe Pan-Eleetric Company have, on their stock, an engraving of Puck, ex- pHjg 

claiming, " I (lirdle tarth in forty secouus." ES 

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In " forty seconds," they bad pounced upon, ^| 

A '^world^^ of genius, — girdled it around — ^| 

And maddened, by the seeming victory won, ^^ 

Trampled their Benefactor to the ground ; |g 

But springing up, be only telegraphed — H 

Touched them with lightning, and the whole world laughed ! ii 

A great guffaw, burst forth from Uncle jSam, ^^ 

Echoed by all from Mexico to Maine, |^ 

Cleveland's great jelly, shook into a jam ; H 

W And rapture lighted up the face of Blaine. ^^ 

1^ The lightning ceased — Its author let them go, ^H 

g^ Pitied alike, by laughing friend, and foe, |g 

p;.3i J5ia 

K^ But now in yonder halls, serene as sprinj::, Eisi 

Pia He weaves the liffhtnino; to a wreath of flowers: sa 

pa Or labor finished, where the linnet sino;s, ga 

HI! Wanders with Beauty to her fairest bowers — i^ 

^a "^ ^a 

11 Dove-like in peace, but terrible in wrath, || 

llj If Young assail, or Garland cross his path! ^| 

rria But Parthenon, despite the Statesman's craft 

£!a 

R3I Shall flow thro' aires, bearing; them along: : 

Ra Ages shall laugh, as first a nation laughed, 

p:a To see them whirling; on the tide of song;: 

Ea 

ppj There shall they live, like ripplets on a river — 

pa Like flies in amber,* let them live forever! 

^^ Return my harp to Parthenon, and sing 

^^ Manhoods own Kohinoors, in yonder throng; 

mi 

j^~^ *ELEUTRON— Electricity was first discovered in Amber; from the Greolc of 

prrg which substance, its name was derived ; long before Lysander, another statesman. 

^a '• eked out the lion's skin, with the foxes!" 
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To dashing chivalry, 3'onr honors bring, 
For youth and valor listen to tlio song : 
There do they stand ; to home and heaven true, 
Their souls as lofty as yon mountains blue ! 

Bridget and Barney lowliest in the rounds 

Of Jacob's ladder reaching to the skies. 

Now herd my flocks, or linger on the grounds, 

And find a heaven in each others eyes — 

Their love as true, without the pomp of wealth, 

Their riches Hojior, Purity and Health. 

Such dower was thine, O, guardian of my home, |^ 

Mysterious Mary, ever young and fair ! 

Mightier than all the muniments of Home, 

And yet a gentle mother smiling there. 

Of fallen empires — ruined worlds a part. 

She comes to me, and breathes upon my heart — 

Points to the flowers, blooming at my feet, 

To stars above me, looking down from Heaven. 

Then to my "jewels;" and in accent sweet: 

" Dost know for what ? — by whom such joys were given ? 

Start not immortal ! they were given by me — 

Handmaid of heaven from Eternity !"'^' 

And oft recounting such mysterious words, 
I seek companionship with vulgar men. 
Who fly away, like shallow pated birds, 
Laugh at my dreams, and pity me — but then, 

*Uno modo in Seipso. Secundum quo! jam in actu est. Et sic non consldera- 
tur ut futurum, Sed ut praoscns. (St. Thomas quaestio xiv, p. 131.) 



She whispers soft : " TheoioTcos,* supreme, 

Was God's eternal thought, and Heaven's awakening dream ! 

Then points to Egypt, once her mystic home, 

Whose pyramids but mock the dead within, 

To lost Persepolis and Ancient Rome, 

As monuments of misery and sin. 

But promises, while 3'ondcr sun toils on, 

Humility and Faith to Parthenon !f 

Last, but not least, yon owl;]: O, Parthenon, 
Thy guest from Athens, at my very door ! 
'Tis a strange thing, but there she ponders on 
Thy mysteries, and Parthenon of yore ; 
All day — all night — her temple in yon tree. 
She offers up her lonely life to thee ! 

Never so strange a thing, that owlet came. 

To gaze upon a cottage, night and day ! 

If bird or devil, syllable some name! 

Art Thetis or Minerva, or but common clay? 

Who sent thee hither? where thy temple now, 

Changed for yon willow, and its hollow bough ! 



"Mother of God, in the Catholic creed was inserted to fence out. from the Church 
aU Heretics, who denied that our Divine Lord's Divine Nature was born of the 
Blessed Virgin.— Prov. 9, & 31. & 10. Canllelos, 24:24. Isa. 7:14-11, 1-19. 1. Luko 
42:43. Matt. 2:13. John 19:35. Gen. 3/. 15-24: 17. Ps. 18 : 6-44 9 & 10, 41 :5fl. 

tHoyt Nichol's fine poeui, ninkes the Sun " toil on " without a Sabbath, Alas I 
how bleak the Poet's mountains I His soul, how desolate ! 

tAn owl makes her home in a hollow willow at the front door of Parthenon, 
and has grown so tame, that the children feed it— I have seized upon this circum- 
stance to contrastpaganism with Christianity— so far as the owl, sacred to Minerva, 
suggests that all mankind, yearn for an immaculate Virgin-mother. 
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Didst gaze on Athens and her Parthenon, 
When Socrates drank Hemlock; and, alas! 
Looked up despairing to the very sun, 

I That lighted up Plataea and thy pass, 

I O grand Thermopoljse ; but gave mankind 

I Only a light that struck the nations blind !* 

I 

I Didst hear his high philosophy ? or Plato's song, 

I Discoursing with the stars, but all in vain ? 

) O, tell me owl mysterious, how long 

) The nations slept ! and shall they sleep again ! ' 

) Say, where Minerva? Do the stars shine on ? 

) Then where thy Goddess — "Where her Parthenon ! 

) 

) Now the bright moon again comes up in gold, 

) Another Goddess, with a Virgin's mien : 

) And nature seems her very breath to hold, 

^ Enraptured by the beauty of the scene; 

i) But shedding tears,^ she cried : "unshriven owl !" 

^ "Reveal the mystery of thy mournful scowl !" 

I 

|) When thus it answered: "now unsanctified, 

" But 'ere the stars came forth, I dwelt in Heaven, 

" And scowl to gaze upon yon ruin wide — 

" My worship vanished, and my temples riven ! 

" For I was beautiful, at God's right hand, 

" And weighed in balances, the sea and land !"t 

♦Aesculapius to whom Socrates offered up a cocA. just before he drank the 
hemlock, was a son of Apollo— the Sun. 

tBeforo the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth and 

when he prepared the Heavens. I was there : Then I was by Him, as one brought 

up with him ; and I was daily His delight.— Prov. Ch. viii, v. 25-30. Minerva had 

told this lie so long to the Athenians, that possibly she had como to believe it : but 

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" Cast out with Satan, for my wisdom's pride, 
" Long did I lead the nations deeper down : 
" My Parthenon was then Appolyon's pride ; 
" Glory of Athens, and her brightest crown ! 
" No heart have I to feel, but fully know, 
" Tiiat knowledge can not lift us from below ! 

Then a soft whisper rustled through the wood : 

" My name Minerva — nothing to yon Bride, 

" Who gives to Heaven and Earth her precious blood, 

" Flowing on Calvary, from Jehovah's side, 

"Weep not O, nature! Heaven and Earth attest, 

" And echo their loud cry finitum est. 

" Yourself, as well, stood once at God's right hand,* 

" Beheld the rising universe and smiled, 

" Yon rolling ocean, and my measured land, 

" Eve's vine — clad garden, and her woodland wild — 

" But Calvary looming up thro' distant years, 

*' Obscured their brightness, and awoke thy tears. 

" Eve but embodied, thee in figure dim, ;f 
" Adam adored, and angels gazed upon — 



she had only been a suhordinate in Heaven ; and not in any sense comparable to 
Her spoken of in the Mass and Offices of the Catholic Church, thus: JJominus 
possedit me in initio viarum suarum antequam quidquam faceret a prlncipio. Ab 
seterno ordinala sum, et ex antiquis antequam terra floret. 

Nondum erant abyssi, et ego jam coneepta eram; necdum fontes aquarum 
eruperant, necdum montes gravi mole, constitei'ant, aate colles ego parturiebar— 
In Festis B. V. per annum. 

*Natura antem prior est quam intellectus ; quia natura cujuscumque rel est 
essentia ejus. Question LX, Conclusio, Articulus I. 

Est antem hoc commune omni natura? ut habeat aliquam iudinationem, qufe 
est appetihis naturalis vel amor; qute tamen inclinatio diversimodi invenitur In 
diversis naturis, in iniaquacunque secundum modum ejus. 

tPraterea quod non creatum, non est oreatura. Si igitur In his quae sunt a 
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|| " Thou from thy God proceeding— Eve trom him, 

|fc " But now their Paradise forever gone, 

^^ " Mary, tiiine own embodiment of grace, 

«> " Gives, the lost world, a new and heavenly race !* 

# 

4^ " A spotless virgin, to her God resigned, 

^^ " But all unconscious of her lofty state — 

4h " O'ershadowed by 27ie Holy Ghost, like wind 

4h " On yon Baptismal font immaculate; 

^1 " Gives the Wew Race, as erst The Holy Ghost, 

^» " Brooding o'er Chaofi, yon celestial host.f 



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] 

" She sat for ages on' a snow-white throne — 1^ 

^ " Built ere the stars came forth — at God's right hand ; ^| 

% " Built from Eternity, beside His own ; ^| 

^1 " And from it gazed upon " The Promised Land " — ^r 

% " She his first thought (if first with Him could be), I? 

^ " And Thou her morning dream — Herself in mystery ? ^r 

# . # 

^ " Each quickened soul, an arrow from the skies, ^ 

" Falls festering in the rotten flesh of Earth, ^ 

" But her's all purity, and great as wise, ^ 

" From God's own bosom struggled to its birth, ^ 



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natura. non adjungatur creatio, sequitur quod ea quEe sunt a natura, non sunt ^^ 
creaturre; qitod est hareticum. 3k 

Sed contra est, quod Augustinius (Super Gen) distinguit opus pi'opas'ationis, ^n 
quod est opus naturae, ab opere creationis Conclusio. Creatio non admiscetur ^» 
operibus nalvrce et artis; sed aliquid ad illarum operationcm proesupponitur. 3^ 
QuEEStio XLV. ^Z 

Uno modo in Seipso, secundum quod jam in aotu est. Et Sic non considera- ^m 
tur utfuturvm, sed vitjirasens. St. Thomas questio XIV. P. i:U. ^^ 

♦John 1 : 12-]:5. Kph. 1 : 19. 2 : 10. I Peter 1 : 3-23. ^ J 

tJohn 3: 3— Unus erat toto natura; vultus in orbe; quem di.xere chaos, rudis, ^p 
indigestaque moles * * ♦ * Sidera coeperunt toto effervescere caelo. Ovid j^ 
Met. II. If 

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^J^iigK aiginaiipit jii||jii«i Mgiii Ji||iufji|i|j|«rjiij|j|iiii- jiigiic 3ii{jii»C-jii|]Jit'jijjpc£;j2| 



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"And lilvc yon flower, on Death's anointed head, <s> 

" Remained Immaculate amonor the Dead ! 4> 



"Destined by Heaven to bruise the serpent's head, 
" (Alas, poor Eve — her own sweet image there) — 
" IShc walks the Earth, as one among the dead, 
" Pure as her Holy Son, and passing fair — 
" Her Beauty, Nature, God alone could see 
" In his own bosom, prophesying Thee !* 

"Lo, the sweet maiden on Judea's hill, 
" Chosen to be the spotless Bride of God ! 
" God's holy Mother, suffering every ill — 
" Chosen to bear the smiting and the rod — 
" A sweet Redeemer of the lost and blind, 
" Spotless as snow, but suffering for mankind I 

" Her soul Immaculate thro' nature reigns — 

" Inspires each miracle to bless the Earth, 

" From promised sacrament, in yonder grain, 

" To Yine clad mountain, and the floweret's birth! 

" Her sweetest tints O, Nature given to thine, 

" As God's own Love, and budding worlds combine ! f 



♦From the beginning, and 5c/o?v, /he wcrld, was I created ; and unto the world to 
come, I shall not cease to be; and in the holy dwelling place, I have ministered 
before Him. And so was I in Jora?alem. And took root in an honorable people, 
and in the portion of my Go3, his inheritance; aad my abode Is in the full assem- 
bly of saints— Eccli. 24:6-10. 

tAnd I. John, saw the New Jerusalem, the holy city, ccming dmon from God, out 
of Heaven ; prepared as a Bride, adorned for her husband— Apol. 21:?. 

Even the Pagans had a dim idea of this heavenly love. 

At ubi Spiritus amcre principorum suorum tactus est. Grotius do vcritate. 
PhCEnicum Theoloffia. 



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1^ " Behold tliy kingdom, nature, thus enlarged, 

1^ " Thy grain and waters, grape and flowers to bo, 

^1 " With a new life, and holier function charged. 

1^ "In the new kingdom given to Heaven and Thee; 

^1 " For Sacramental graces linger with them all — 

II " Redeemed with man — not angels — from the fall ! 

llj " No longer now shall sorrow till the ground, 

II " But Priests of nature cultivate the Earth ; 

II " The plowman sees an Altar in each mound, 

II " In every flower a sacramental birth ; 

ii " While doubly blessed, Gods own anointed Priest, H 

la " Brings nature's oiFering to the Heavenly Feast ! |a 

Til? BiSI 

II " Lo Abel kneeling, with his c(?/'^i and t^i/ie; || 

II " To make atonement for a brother's ire, ^| 

II " The Christ prefigured in a Priestly line, b| 

II " Reaching from Eden, to the world on fire ! * || 

II " Exalted Nature, look abroad and see Ii 

II " Yon rising nations — all compelled like thee! eia 

^ " Their sacrifices evermore proclaim, || 

4 " The Priesthood, a Necessity of Time ; || 

" In every ofiering to Jehovah's name, || 

" Wherever altars rise to Heaven sublime ! || 

" Delusive Earth, and Heaven seem to meet, || 

" Ever pursued by Adam's bleeding feet ! || 

" Lo the long line of Aaron robed in red — »3a 

" Yon gorgeous temple rising up to Heaven, ^a 

— — iB3a 

•From the risinp to the going: down of tho sun my name shall be great among ^^^ 
the Qent\\esa,\i(l.iae\eTy v^acQ Incense shallbeoffereditntomy name. Malach, 4;ll-]2. tia 

.^d.- < > irag:3g:ag:3E?<R':ag?ir.giF::3E3E3Ba 

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Ea 
" What clouds of sacrifice ! what slaughter dread ! || 

"What thundered music till the skies are riven ! ^| 

" 'Tis but the prelude to yon wondrons thing — || 

" The sacrifice of Heaven's Eternal King ! i| 

E3 

Ea 

" Yon watery deluge sweeping o'er the world ; Ea 

" Yon lonely ark where boundless billows swell ; Ea 

" Yon cloudy banners to the sky unfurled, Ea 

" And storms that terrify the powers of hell — Ea 

H "Proclaim the wrath of Heaven, and yonder home — saa 

m " Thy bark St. Peter, and its anchor liome /* |a 

^^ eI 

|g " Behold yon patriarchs, gazing on the skies, Ea 

II " Their flocks around them, thro' the silent night ! es 

Ea " What aspirations in their bosoms rise ! Ea 

ea " What gleams of glory from yon mountain height — ea 

Ea " Obscure but dazzling — see, the darkened sun, ea 

Eia ^'^ 

Ea "And Heaven atoning for a world undone! gSI 

Ea ^ E| 

^^ ■ eI 

m " Hark to yon earthquake, see the staggering hills : ea 

jl^ " Lo, Mary struggling with her ancient foe ; Bia 

H " His hissing triumph, all creation fills, 

bH " As liis God cries out in agonizing woe — 

ea " Now at her feet, the writhing serpent lies ! 

ea " Por Jesus bows his bleeding head and dies If 

Ea 

Ea 

II " With earth-quake tread. He now descends to Hell 

II " Behold the prophets, kneeling to his name, 

11 " Who long to see, but more to hear him tell 

11} " The mysteries of Redemption, and proclaim 

Ea . 

Ea 

Ea *See Appendix C. 

Ea +Tho seed of (he Woman shall bruise the serpent's head. (Genesis.) 

ea 27 

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' Their freedom promised — prophesied too long — 

' Ilark, the loud shout ! The triumph of their song !* 

' Sec far beneath them in eternal ^roe, 

'Falling thro' sulph'rous clouds, those monster kings 

' Whose sacrileges plunge them far below 

'Earth's vilest sinners, and her meanest things-— 

' Me7ie mene iekel upharsan^ all 

' Howl in despair, loud sobbing as they fall! 

' From Persian Monarch, down to Catharine's foe — 

' England's adulterous and bloated beast — 

' Down to the false Immanuel, now '''■Diahold''* — 

' See them descending — not to Persian feast — 

' But ever cursing — falling — spit upon 

' By fiery lightnings, naked and undone ! 

' Like worms all writhinc: — hidino; -with their hands — 

'Not the vile nakedness they revelled in; 

' But bloated faces, lest in other lands, 

' They meet again some partner of their sin ; 

' Or suddenly, beyond the realms of grace — 

' More horrid still— A Saviour's wounded facel 

'Yon saints now burst the cerements of the tomb! 
' Behold a thousand times ten thousand souls, 
' Their King escorting — Hark the thunder's bomb! 
' N"ow to the very gate of Heaven it rolls — 
'Immanuel triumphs! up to Heaven He flics! 
' Seraphic legions, guard Him to the skies! 



»Hc preached to spirits in prison with Noah before the flood. (St. I'eter Epis.) 
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" Yon Priesthood mock — unmoved by Mary's sigh, 

" While Peter preaches to the multitude 

"'Behold The Rock! — exultlnglj they cry — 

" ' The mighty Prince ! with heavenly power endued 1 

" ' And yonder looman — Blessed to be known 

" ' Throughout the world, and Peter on a throne V 

" Lo all the Nations now at Peter's feet ! 
"That mystic Roclc on which his Maker built; 
" The lonely Fisherman, has mounted to thy seat, 
" O, Constantino — his sword reversed — its hilt 
" A holy Cross — hoc signo, in the skies, 
" To which all nations turn their wondering eyes. 

" Thy Queen, O, Constantine, at Mary's feet, 

" Ages to come, salute her ' Queen of Heaven ;^ 

" Ave Maria ! every where repeat, 

"In thunderedmusic, till the skies arc riven. 

" Attila — Genseric, behold her now, 

" And red Lepanto gazes on her brow !* 

" Behold Columbus on the stormy deep ! 

" ' Santa maria,^- thine, ' Christ-bearing dove 1 'f 



•Maitland, Roscoe, Hallam. ancl aU great Protestant writers on The Middle 
Ages, attribute European civilization to the Catholic Hierarchy : and, in its last 
great struggle, as the Crescent went down, upon the gulf of Lepanto, A. D. 1571, 
thousands assembled around the Vatican, were repsating the Ave Maria, when 
The Holy Pope, St. Pius V, in a celestial vision, saw the Crescent fall, and announc- 
ed it to the multitude. Though the Jews mocked when an Angel prophesied Mary's 
enduring kingdom ; and still more, when Our Divine Lord foretold Peter's pow- 
er ; though Protestants may still despise, and Infidels revile, the facts of history re- 
main ! 

tCokimbus' ship: but his name Christo-pher— Columbus, was ffiveu bcforo ho 
sailed to give our Divine Lord to America ! 

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' Fly to the rescue, where yon millions weep, 
' Strangers to Marj and a mother's love ! 
'Now Xavier journeys to the Pagan East, 
' And calls her millions to the Heavenly feast! 

' ' Santa Maria ! ' " Xavier ! "* ' Christ-hearing dove ! 
'O why should Heaven, in name mysterious, shroud 
' Her plans of mercy and her deeds of love ! 
' Like strategy in storm of battle loud, 
'Mary beguiles the cunning of her foe, 
' And wins the battle at a single blow ! 

' Wins East and West, with millions yet to come, 

' Ten thousand millions, as the sun toils on, 

' To recompense the losses of her home, 

' Where faith once blossomed brighter than the sun ; 

' She sees the learning which her wisdom made, 

' Striking her bosom with ungrateful blade.f 

' Sees Europe fall away — an iron age 

' Bent upon lucre madly rushing on ; 

' Burning with lust, bold devils, in their rage, 

' Personify God's own Anointed Son \X 

' Perverting grace to every low desire — 

' Heaven's wrath is kindled ! lo, the world'?! on fire ! 

' Behold what clouds, on yonder mountain dread I 
' Ten thousand lightnings from a wounded brow 
' Reveal Three Persons, and a robe of red ! 
' The same we mocked on Calvary, but now 

•Savior. 

tSee Appendix D. 

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" Its flaming grandeur lighting up the sky, 

" Revolving planets melt, and suns before Him fly. 

" Lo ! at his feet another cloud as dread, 

" Lurid its light, but yet revealing there, 

" Mercy exhausted, with uplifted head, 

" And wringing hands — her shrieks upon the air. 

" A Mother pleading, as a Mother pleads — 

" Her hands imploring, as her bosom bleeds. 

" Ah ! who could stand the terrors of that day ? 

" God's lightning wrath upon the Universe ! 

" No Mother there, no tenderness to stay ! 

" No bosom, once that angry judge's nurse.* 

" Why cease those thunders ?f — Millions saved by One, 

"Pleading the merits of her ONLY SON ! 

" Yet witlings scorn, and even pious fools, 
"Owning allegiance to her Holy Son, 
"Despise the power of Mary, tho' she rules 
" The Universe — All Heaven and Earth as one! 
" Her progeny a new and heavenly race, 
" Shining along the firmament of Grace ! 

" In this great truth, like germ in yonder bud, 

" See wrapped another, palpable and sure, 

"That SHE, from Heaven dispensing 'Flesh and Blood,' 

" In sacramental mystery, must be Pure — 

"'In Adam all died, but Mary was exempt, 

" From every stain, as e'en the Pagan dreamt. 

*" Ubera quae lactassent." Infestis. B. M. V. 
tDonec pertranseat furor tuns. F. B. F. M. 



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" Ah, liow we struggled in that ancient time, 

" To choke thy voice, O Nature, but in vain ; 

" For men would listen to its song sublime, 

" And worshipped motherhood in many a fane, 

" Their temples rose to Heaven and counterfeited all, 

" Yet lured them by a gentle mother's call. 

" When Jesus suffered and the nations saw, 

" A holier mother, beautiful and dear ; 

" They left our temples — overthrew thy Law, 

" O, lost Jerusalem, and flew to her, 

" Blessed throughout the world her sacred name, 

" Till Luther fell and lustful Henry came: 

" Bright Thetis on a sea shell pure as brine, 

" Isis in lotus, wafted o'er the Nile, 

" Diana's virtue — e'en the sacred nine, 

" And Ceres with her gifts, in yonder aisle — 

" Were inspirations, Nature, given of thee, — 

" Of God's IrriTnacidate, a prophesy ! 

" Obscurely seen, sweet Mary, even then, 

" (Best known in Heaven to her angels dear) — 

"Was mirrored dimly, in the souls of men, 

" Who yearned for pity, in a mothers' tear; 

" Beheld the Queen of Heaven, at God's right hand, 

" And worshipped Her in many a Pagan land ! 

" Man's holiest instinct, prompted by the love 
" Of a pure mother's heart in every home, 
" Yearned for a mother, guileless as the dove 
" Even in Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome — 



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" From Isis, down to Mary undefiled, 

" The worship grew, and every desert smiled I 

" Not Venus of the Bacchanal, but she 
" Borne from the Ocean, on a pearl-like shell, 
" (Pure as the salt, each home's necessity) — 
" Snatching the lustful from a fiery hell — 
" And given to penitence, as God was given,* 
" To vindicate the unity of Heaven ! f 

" For ere the stars came forth, or matter was, 
" God from eternity surveyed them all ; 
" Saw thee, O Nature, and prescribed thy laws, 
" (His lone companions in the Empyreal) 
"Mary first blessed, and then created thee, 
" Her counterpart in love and mystery ! ^ 

" His angels next, with sparkling eyes — all flame, 

" If heavenly love to fire we compare ; 

" For Mary gave to every one a name, 

" Still visible upon each pinion there. 1^ 

" ' Mother !' they sighed, and kneeling at her feet, 

" Sang the same song that all mankind repeat I 

" Ave Maria ! full of Grace, 

" Above all spirits blest, 

" O, let ns gaze upon thy face, 

" And in thy bosom rest. 

" Our God his mercies now reveal, 

" In raptures never known — 

♦(St. Paul Eph. Romans) and (1st Cor. 8, 5-6). 

tNotwithstanding- the vulgar notion that the Pagans were Polythelsts. they all 
believed in one supreme deity, henoe Homer : Theos Theon Kal anthropon. 
tEcls. 24 ; 6-16. Apol. 21 ; 2-(See notes page 21.) 

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Thro' every change, a meek-ejed worshipper 



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II " Tlie holy love our spirits feel 

ga " Exalted to thy throne I 

BQ 

BH " Obscured by Glory, He must reign, 

Ea «• Forever dimly shown, 

^a " But all his love comes back again, 

lU " Commingled with thine own ; 

II " To Heaven and Thee, our praise be given, 

II '• For God is Thine, and Thou art Heaven !" 

m\a 

EM 

Esa . ^ . 

Bia Thus sang the mystic bird, and Nature went, isia 

Ea Still weeping as she smiled — loved Mary most Ea 

1*21 Of all created dignities, and sent Ea 

Eia ^ ' Ba 

f^3 Flowers to blossom for the Sacred Host, Ba 

ya ' BQ 

II With storms as well, to keep our woes in mind, |a 

II And all things beautiful to bless mankind. || 

Kai / Eg 

Ba BQ 

Ea With Mary, hand in hand, from mountain srlen, sa 

Ba *? ' . gig 

^ Down to the valley and sequestered dell, sa 

She cheers and sanctifies the homes of men, Ba 

But most on Parthenon delights to dwell, sa 

*' BS 

Where humble faith, in meekness clings to Her, ga 

BQ 

Bia 
Ba 
Bia 

Vanished the owl — Minerva's better self — Ba 

Bia 

Vanished her " quaint and half-forgotten lore ;" |a 

Down in the willow tree the little elf ii 

■Ilia 

Retired mysterious, and was seen no more; |1 

But every night returns to gaze upon — ^^ 

Perhaps to moralize on Parthenon ! || 

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For psychic "wisdom — wisdom such as hers — ^| 

Objective Truth, without the light of Grace, ^^ 

Can only mystify her worshippers, Ea 

And tho' she bring Minerva on her face, |a 

To owl and bat yon darkened hole be given, la 

While Parthenon exalts her head to Heaven 1 . Eia 

Eia 
au 

Here dwelt my fathers,* strangers all to pride — sa 

The same sweet paths by generations trod ; la 

In bold simplicity, they lived and died, ^| 

And soared thro' yonder arches to their God — H 

1^ Fit consummation of a life well spent, §1 

^1 Remote from splendor, but with home content. |a 

^^ 11 

fsa Their very slaves more happy here than when sa 

Ea Roaming in Congo, naked and accursed ; ^a 

Ea Their sweetest music from the Lion's den, sa 

EEa ^3 

Ba Their children brawny, but on brambles nursed, || 

|3 O, better far, in yonder cabin bright, || 

II To strike the banjo, and to dance at night ! || 

i°3a 

ii Yon sword ancestral, hanging on the wall, 

Ba Still guards sublime, the battlements they built; 

Eg At Yorktown saw the British banner fall — 

Ea Saw them surrender many a golden hilt — 

EH How flashed it then ! what paths in battle made, 

Ea What lightnings sleep upon its rusty blade ! 

Igigi ■■■■■ ' ^ ■ — ■ 

Ea *Georpetown College, being my father's Alma mater and Baltimore his home ? 
P^ this anatopism might be excused without the "■ licei Poetis et Ora/oribus." At any 
gj^ rate, all the pictures here drawn of primitive simplicity, arc strikingly true of 
ea "Long Meadows," and "The Haw Fields" of North Carolina, ten miles square of 
^U which were granted to the author's maternal ancestors ; and in the old homestead 
psjg their children lived, "right royally " until ruined by the late war. [See Wheel- 
ed er's Reminiscences of Orange County N. C. 

Ga „_ 

EigEgEaEagigg:3iPi;gEigjT;aagiF;agg^TJ . y ...^.e^^fv,. . . , , 

eiaBaeaBaBaEaEjaBuaeiieaeaEari^ ^ *'^- ^=^ ^ 



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Ye days of old, what simple pastime yours ; 
What games of innocence upon the lawn ; 
When happy lovers fluttered from yon doors, 
To gambol, o'er the grass, at early dawn ; 
At noon to slumber, or to plan anew, 
The coming merriment, for hours that flew. 

On dashing steeds, to scour the distant hills, 
Maiden and Youth, all laughter as they flew, 
To light as birds, by yonder murmuring rills, 
For the wild strawberry, trembling in the dew, 
Or gather chestnuts, falling fast around ; 
Where flowers invite, and plenty strews the ground. 

Hark, to the foxhound ! now the yelling pack 1 
Pellmell the lovers mount — go dashing on ; 
Sunshine or shower, or tempest black. 
It matters not, they fly from Parthenon — 
The fox is captured, and in circle sweet 
They taunt the pirate trembling at their feet. 

On flying steeds once more the lovers bend, 
In headlong gallop, down to Riverdale ; 
To the wild scenes a merry laughter lend, — 
Clear the broad ditch, or blooming hedges scale — 
A Lord in homespun,* now a slave no more, 
Receives them kindlj' — welcomes to the door. 



*In Wheeler's "reminiscences of N. C." Col. Sheppard, of Long Meadows, Is 
represented as wearing: homespun manufactured by his own negroes— a striking con- 
trast with his coach and four! but thus the fight commenced against tht Tariff 
which brought on our civil war, and siill agitates the country. 

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Fair Ladies, oft in London's gay saloon, 
Give hearty welcome, to the family board, 
Where dinner waits, without the golden spoon, 
But better far, yon gardens' ample hoard. 
With dainties — all unknown to Foreign shore, 
Turkeys and Mallard captured at the door. 

Fast fly the moments, merriment and song 
Give wings to rapture, reigning now supreme; 
The harp sings loud, and rebecs bear along 
Ecstatic moments in a flying dream ; 
But happiness was never yet content, 
In the gay lover, on his pleasures bent. 

Mounting again, they dash the mountains o'er. 

Rock Creek, thy valleys echo back the din, 

'Til Kalorama* with its open door. 

Invites to every luxury within ; 

And makes each guest forgetful for the while, 

That his own delightful home had ceased to smile. 

Here lies Decatur, keeping evermore. 
The sword of Tunis buckled to his side ; 
No longer heedful of the tempest's roar, 
Nor pirate's cannon, booming o'er the tide. 
No longer mounts exultingly the wave. 
But points to victory from a patriot's gravel 

O, lovely Kalorama let me find 

The pensive reed,t for which your name was given, 

♦Burial place of Commodore Decatur and residence of Barlow the Poet— Tf h«r» 
the author of '^Eome Sweet Home" was often entertained at a later day, 
tKalamos-oromai— not Kalos-orama. 
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^ And let its music sing to every wind, 

j^ Arrest yon stream, and stay the stars of heaven, 

^ 'Til coming ages pay their tribute here — 

^ 'Tis all Decatur asks — a Patriot's tear. 

«) 

^ Here princely Corcoran opens far and wide, 

P Yon river park, where scenes of beauty glance. ■ 

P Decatur smiles, his scabbard at his side, 

P Dreaming of Carthage, and her sons — perchance 

Q Of modern Carthage, and her exile Payne — 

P Late homeward bound, but pulseless on the main. ^ 

^ Nor '■'■Home Sioeet home^'' nor Hail Columbia now, p 

Q The Poet's pallid lip may tremble o'er ; ¥ 

P But Corcoran gazes on his pallid brow, P 

P And lays him on a mother's lap once more, V 

^ That age on age, wherever "home" is "sweet" — ¥ 

*P Their names may mingle, and their spirits meet. — P 

<8) 2 

'Til Barlow's lyre, no longer tuned to Mars,* ^ 

^ Maecenas listening, and his Poet singing " home," ¥ 

^ Shall catch fresh music, from the fading stars, P 

And lead wherever happiness may roam — P 

Payne and Maecenas — Barlow leading on — ¥ 

Like strains of music melting into one. ¥ 

(0 

For every song that thrills a bosom here, P 

Is but a drop from Heaven running o'er, ¥ 

And the great bard who wakes a pensive tear, ¥ 

An unseen seraph, singing on that shore; Y 

, ^ " "^ k 

•The Columblad was an Epic on the Revolutionary war. ¥ 

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Tho' deemed an exile as he seemed to roam, ^ 

His tuneful spirit called us to its HOME. ^ 

Not Payne alone — behold yon manor bright,* ^ 

Plumed with a castle in the olden time ; ^ 

Thither ye lovers ! and behold its light— ^ 

. Another exile, and a soul sublime; ^ 

i Gone is the Castle, and obscure the hill, ^ 

SJ But rainbows linger on its summit still ! 

i 

^ L'Enfant ! L'Enfant ! thy lonely grave is here ; 

$ Thy child, yon city, sees but knows it not: ¥ 

For genius falls, without a sigh or tear, ¥ 

© His plans mysterious and his grave forgot ; ¥ 

^ Even till centuries have passed away, J 

^ When a cold world comes gazing on his clay. j 

^ 5 

2 Yon mazy streets, and capitol divine— ¥ 

J A Pantheon transported o'er the sea— ¥ 

J With all their dark significance are thine, I 

f Singing a song to Liberty and Thee ! ^ 

S Freedom herself, exalted in yon dome— 

? Yon avenues to lead her children home ! 

2 Behold it there the glory of the land, 

f Lighting the generations yet to come : 

? O'er broken thrones and Tyrannies to stand, 

S Forevermore a beacon , and a home ; 

X But thou L'Enfant, without a friendly stone, 

S Live in my song, thy monument and throne 1 



♦See Exhibit O. 
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But why didst leave that dome so blank withal I 
— Jeff Davis felt it — * placed a savage there — 
A pagan goddess, but imperial, 
With warlike feathers, for a virgin's hair; 
O, tear it down ! L'enfant, before his time; 
Was dreaming of a symbol, more sublime: 



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Hast seen the Pantheon ! St. Peter's dome? 

L'enfant had seen them — All mankind shall see — 

Do warlike feathers kiss the sky of Rome? 

O, what, ye wise, is Christian liberty? 

Yon Architect, unhonored in his grave, 

Knew that The Cross — The Cross' alone could save! 

Milton and Shakespeare, for a'hundred years, 
Were all unknown — unknown the songs they sang, 
But then awoke ten thousand sighs and tears. 
Too late alas ! to save them many a'pang ; 
On — on my song, tho' twilight seems to die, 
Her stars break forth, like blossoms on the sky ! 

Yon grand old manor, rich in memory's store, 
L'Enfant upon her bosom, smiles a queen ; 
Cornelia-like, she asks for nothing more — 
Her children are her jewels, and the green, 



* 



•Jeff Davis, when Seoretary of War, felt that something was wanting to the 
dome, on which L'enfant would have placed a cross, but for intolerance :— Even 
the great Southern leader said in one of his speeches that Galileo, rose from the 
rack and cried out, "Tho Earth does move;" when all men of fairjnformation 
know that Galileo was never punished thus, even for his impertinent and silly 
attack on the Bible, but perhaps the Orator was thinking of his own great coun- 
tryman. Jasper, who stamped his foot on tho ground, and cried out, 
" The Sun do move!" 



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Neath yonder cedar, asks no vulgar tomb, 

Where emeralds grow, and flowers immortal bloom ! 

He asks no tomb ! But O, to guild your name, 
To save your children, and yon city fair — 
To snatch them from ingratitude and shame, 
Go build, America, great arches there; 
Like yonder dome to symbolize the free — 
No honor to L'Enfant, but battlements for thee ! 



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L'Enfant and Payne! behold yon Shepherd King:* 
Forgotten where his pyramids arise ; 
See your own, SHEPHERD ! — every honor bring, 
And build a monument to touch the skies! 
L'Enfant neglected, first your city gave, 
SHEPHERD inspired her to wander to his gravel 

Homeward again the lovers dash along; 
The moon to light them and the stars to cheer; 
The mocking bird enchants them with his song, 
All earth is happiness and Heaven near! 
Yon arch receives them, and in slumbers light, 
They soon forget the rambles of the night. 

Now for a sail ! Mt. Yernon for the port, 
Each lover climbs the dancing pinnace where, 
Still linger traces of that ancient fort,f 
Dear to the lover, for a flower there — 

*The Shepherd Kings of Egypt built their own tombs— The Pyramids, that look 
doTvn on more than 40 centuries. 

tRunning from Minnehaha springs through Parthenon grove. [See page 50.) 

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With welcomes to the hospitable gate. 



Ea 

i^ The wind is up — Mt. Yernon's urinces wait, 

EiSI 

bI Yon citj passed, their Mecca heaves in sight, 

Ba Virginia gives to Maryland her hand ; 

Ba Custis and Lee, and Washington delight, 

B3 To waive them greeting — welcome to the land^- 

ga " ^ 

Ba They climb the hill — Mt. Vernon bids them come, 

ea *' 

Bia Not only guests, but noblemen at home. 

Ea 

II The prince of princes, dignified — serene, 

eI Inspires with awe, unconscious of his power, ^ 

il While gentle Martha, smiles a gracious queen, ^ 

ia And lends her beauty to the festal hour, ca 

B21 O, days of innocence, what graces then ! Bia 

ea ' ^ ' " _ ^g 

B3 Our mothers women, and our tathers r/ien .' Bia 

Ea Bia 

II No dude to flutter, and no painted face, || 

II No sudden fortune lifting up the churl, ^ || 



II Nor venal politician dares to place, || 

J^ His vulgar family in ftishion's whirl ; || 

But gentle manners — genius — worth adorn, |'a 

Exalted honor " to the manor born !" ii 

Ea 

No magnate smelling of the hangman's rope, aa 

And incidents, that cronies blush to tell, laa 

No trowsered woman lecturing the Pope — 12a 

Nor Garland, in a pan-electric Hell ! ea 

Ba 
But Adams, Jay, and Jefferson sublime, j|| 

With modest women of the olden time ! ggj 

No north-west Washington, was then sublime; || 

Sought by the vulgar, for the glint of gold, ei 

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Nor politician, crawling in his slime, |9 

Consorted with the beautiful or bold. ^^ 

But Bladensburg — yon eastern branch was then, ^|[ 

The Home of Honor, and shall be again ! || 

Still lingering here, each scene of beauty cries: |^ 

" Come back, ye wanderers to, the lovely plain — ^| 

" Fly from the vulgar, where yon mansions rise — ^^ 

" The palaces of Cameron and Blaine — || 

" Your fathers call you, and with horrid hair, ^| 

" Rising again, rebuke your presence there !" || 

_ ea 

fe^ 'Tis not the pomp of power, nor dashing plume, || 

^1 And circumstance of war — nor mighty ships, || 

11 Nor squadrons charging to the cannon's boom, || 

g^ Nor boundless plains and mountains from whose liips H 

H Eternal Clouds repeat the battle's roar, ila 

el While mighty navys bristle on the shore — ea 

mm 11 

llj They cannot make a people great — nor peace p^ 

1^ Where luxury eats out a nation's heart, 

^g And merriment and banquets never cease, 

g^ Till Freedom and her faithless children part; 

la But the brave men — pure women .of a state, 

ei These — only these — can make a nation great. 

mm 

Eia 

g^ Back to Mount Yernon ! to our lovers back ! 

Qa 

^^ Now murmuring waters bear them gaily on ; 

1^ Fast llies the foam upon the pinnace-track; 

II And soon again they land at Barthenon : 

H To sleep again, impatient of the dawn, 

II And dreaming, kiss the blushes of the morn ! 

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But let them slumber — leave them sleeping there, 

Alas ! they sleep forever on yon hill ! 

The flowers they planted, yet may bloom as fair; 

Yon spring that welcomed, and its sparkling rill 

May still sing on, and vulgar feet profane 

The dust of heroes till they rise again : 

Yet, not at Parthenon, for there no slave, 
Barters his birthright, for an Esau's mess. 
But " on the native heath," McGregors brave, 
Still walk abroad, in conscious manliness. 
While gentle forms, in modesty sublime. 
Reflect " our mothers " of the olden time ! 

If Avarice tempted, or for vulgar place, 
Their hopes should quicken, or their bosoms burn, 
Yon cloud-capped manor, and its kingly race. 
Would check such folly, and to virtue turn : 
For Lowndes is there — surveys each lowly glen, 
Himself as modest, but the prince of men ! 

And near him. Goldsmith — Nature's finest mould, 

Of generous manhood, living for mankind ; 

Alas, poor Yicar! could you see yon fold, 

Tho' striped, and streaked, as to Heaven they wind, 

And hear St. Peter, calling them afar. 

You, too, might follow, poor belated star ! 

My quondam self— with caul upon your face — 
In conscious honesty you plod along ; 
But yet may hear, if worthy of such grace, 
A Father's message, and a Mother's song : 



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When, unlike mine — (Her prodigal at best) — 
Mary might give your gentler spirit rest ! 

Deserted village, sleeping at my feet, 
Once, Bladensburg in military pride; 
Where sable loungers linger on each street. 
Indifferent to the Brave, or how they died ; 
Is yours yon field, where vines and clover wave 
More mindful of the battle, and the Brave ?* 

\i The clover leaf — Its blossoms white, and red, 

^ All intertwined, and trembling to the breeze 

I Like a wild harp, thrown down on Glory's bed. 

Still answering to the murmur of the bees ; 
Its pensive music; and unbidden sighs, 
Sweeter than incense, wafted to the skies! 

Where now your Calverts, and the cavaliers 
Who sprang to battle? Where the busy throng 
Crowding yon martf with anxious hopes and fear,3? 
O, where the pomp of yonder Mansion;}: and the song 
Of other days? Alas! departed all — 
Yon dingy cabins now your funeral pall ! 

Fit retribution for the mournful scenes 

Of yonder bridge — (another bridge of sighs) — § 

•Battle of Bladensburg. 

t Bladensburg. on the Eastern branch of the Potomac, was once a great Tobac- 
co Mart— the rival of Baltimore. 

:J:The brick mansion built near the landing by Von Steers, the Antwerp Banker, 
who filled it with rare gems of art— Is now the property of an old negro named 
Lee. 

gDuelling ground. 

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Its fflen detested, where the combat leans 
On public sentiment, but Heaven defies; 
AVhat bloody drops have trickled there for years, 
Alas! outnumbered by poor woman's tears! 

Here the brave butchers Barron, Chilley, Graves, 

And other statesmen, in a crimson pool. 

Prove that the wretch who yields to — never braves 

The Public — is a coward and a fool — 

Egregious fool ! who feared the mob and died — 

At once a murderer and a suicide ! ► 

Alas, that genius, and exalted worth. 
In evil hour should venture to such glen ; 
And yet the noblest — bravest of the earth — 
Purest of patriots and the best of men — 
Decatur, Clay, and Hamilton sublime — 
But let them pass ; 'twas not a vulgar crime. 

Cut in his stirrups, shining through, and through, 
But red with rust, behold the name of Clay — * 
Wg found them where he stood, with gauges true — 
Better no witness had recalled that day — 
But there we found them — there the very name, 
That glitters on the pinnacle of fame. 

See, on another side, his ashen staff, 
Cut by his hand from Ashland long ago : 

*The stirrups of Clay were lately dug up on the duellino: grounds, his name in 
filagree woi-k on the steps of each. How came they there? His massive ffolrl- 
head cane, is also at 'Parthenon. The duel was foujjtit at the Chain Bridge, Va.; 
but probably while Clay was practicing at Bladensbur?, his horse took fright at 
the tiring and lost his saddle. At any rate his stirrups are here. 

4G 



There still the trees, the birds, the waters langh, 
Regardless of the hero lying low; 
Whose relics here are treasured as a gem. 
More glorious than a l<ingly diadem. 

In Parthenon they greet the Pilgrim oft ; 

I And oft Kcntuolvy views each trophy there; 

1 But where the form that mounted — towered aloft, 

^ His plume of genius dashing on the air? 

rii Immortal Clay, behold thy relics here, 

^ And pay to Parthenon a grateful tear! 

. . 

V For she alone, in this degenerate age, 

¥ Defies yon Senate, and corruption's throng; 

w Records their follies, on a daring page; 

w And holds them danglino; on the spear of sono;; 

¥ Suffers in poverty, to Ashland true, 

Y And consecrates her friendless lyre to you ! 
$ 

¥ Alas, for Bladensburg ! in days of old 

¥ A race of monarchs, brighter than the day, 

¥ Bore thro' her wilderness a cross of gold, 

^ And tanght the simple savage how to pray. 

¥ Here first Religious Liberty was born, 

X Here first, alas! her altars overthrown? 



¥ From yonder springs, now Minnehaha hight,* 

¥ The weary savage slaked his thirst, and told 

© - ! . 

¥ *Mmnehaka Springs are on the river above Bla:lensburg, but on the lands of 

^ Parthenon. "The Little Spa " has been known for ages, but the Red and White 

jk Sulphur were unknown until the hujje oak lying- beside them tore away the bank 

¥ in its fall. 

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What miracles were in the waters bright, 
More precious than a universe of gold ; 
For here he knelt, and here the Jesuit stood 
To bathe Minotti in a Saviour's blood. 

O, Blood of Jesu ! from the tree accursed, 
Thro' holy waters still jour currents flow: 
And moved by heavenly benedictions burst. 
In cataracts upon the sinner's brow. 
Here knelt Minotti ; while his spirit soared. 
Higher than eagles to embrace his Lord. 

Yon trees beheld him, and yon fallen oak,* 
Stood sponsor with the chieftains all around ; 
It fell to earth, and healing waters broke 
In torrents from the consecrated ground ; 
But still that fallen oak, neglected lies. 
More eloquent than when it touched the skies ! 

So Washington majestic, sheltered here. 
The wealth of empires hidden at his feet ; 
Yet there he lies, witli scarce a grateful tear. 
Mount Vernon's guest, without a winding sheet; 
While Winter, to the fallen oak, still brings. 
The robe in which he kissed a thousand springs. 

That oak, through ages, watched the setting sun, 
Its branches sang thy song, St. Salvadore, 
Fresh from the Pinta, as the stars went on — 
Had heard it chanted, on this very shore. 
Where christian teachers, ere Columbus came, 
Gave to the savage many a christian name! 

♦CSee Appendix, M, N.) 
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Fountains of Youth ! — (no fabled fountain now) — 

Dispensed eternal life, and every wind, 

Type of the spirit, kissed the savage brow, 

Singing ^^ ahsolvo ie — thy gold refined, 

" Live thou in faith, and purity, and truth, 

"THIS IS THE FOUNTAIN OF ETERNAL YOUTH!" 

Ponce de Leon ! little did you know. 
That blind Tradition, singing thro' the land. 
Was but a christian minstrel sighing low ; 
The very harp that trembled in his hand, 
Was snatched from Eric, when they laid him low, 
^ Baptizing here a thousand years ago.* 

That oak then rising; but a tiny bud. 

Looked up to Heaven, and longed to kiss the sky. 

Drank from the spring, and heard the noisy flood, 

Of yonder river, madly rushing by 

Like a great soul, above ambition's wars. 

It rose to heaven, and dwelt among the stars ! 



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That noisy flood (for never virtue strong 
Rose scornful of the vile, but envy grew), 
Marshalled its forces, in meanderings long: 
And a great ocean on the monarch threw. 
He groaned and fell, but leaping on the foe, 
Sheltered the spring, still laughing on below. 



*Bef ore Columbus landed at St. Salvadore, the martyred Eric, from Greenland, 
had perished in America; and Ponce de Leon's "fountain of youth " was proba- 
bly a tradition, which had wandered from Martha's vineyard— (" vine yard ")— to 
Florida. 



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gg Now striking Parthenon, in fearful ire,* 

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May raise her very battlements, and Pan 
Dance on the ruins of her smouldering fire ; 
But Dagon's temple, tho' it kiss the sky, 
Shall fall around her, ere those embers die ! 



Shall fall, a by word, on the shores of Time, 
Immortal Truth beholding with a smile ; 



Shall crawl with Pan, and many a satyr vile- 



BB 
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HB -A-nd Dagon's demigods, no more sublime, 

BB 

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BB Like yonder streams, meandering as they go, 1^ 

BB While love and beauty sparkle on below ! Ea 

ii ^^ 

BB EU 

^1 Oft have I seen Minotti wandering here : ^^ 

QQ A flaming cross, his bow and arrow now, || 

BH The moon-beam kissed it, and a glittering tear |^ 

ia Fell from the shadows of his lofty brow ; j|| 

BB On yonder breastwork, straggling thro' the wood,t g^ 

BB Where once he fought, the spirit warrior stood ! ia 

l3^ ESQ! 

" Too late ! too late !' the mournful chieftain cried, Ba 

ixa 

(And kneeling, kissed a flower at his feet :) Ea 

" 'Twas here, alas ! my Minnehaha died, H 

" This flower an ofiering from her bosom sweet, ^^ 

" Unblessed of holy water, here she fell, ^^ 

" To sleep forever in this lonely dell !" ^| 

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Scarce had he spoken, when the flower stood, ea 

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More beautiful than when she fell asleep. ^^ 

" Weep not, Minotti," low the maiden sighed, q| 

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Startled the warrior and he would have fled ; ^| 

But lo, a cross upon her radiant brow, e^ 

A crown of glory burning on her head ! Ea 

"Weep not, Minotti," still the maiden sighed, eI 

" 'Tis better thus, than with a mortal bride. ea 

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^1 " An angel touched the waters of yon spring ; 11 

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bI " For thus can Mercy snatch the soul from Hell, Ea 

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II Not earthly love, but God's own glory bright 

eI Blessing the soul as earthly loves depart. 

Ii There did she stand, in spotless maidenhood, 

la All bathed in splendor, lighting up the wood. 

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ii Cloud Parthenon, I wander to this wood, 

II To find the Chief, with Minnehaha there, 

i| Surrounded by the beautiful and good — 

II Maiden and youth and warriors who reveal, 

^^ The buried past, and why yon waters heal. 

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Nor these alone, but many a wayward one — 
Impetuous bards of every age and clime, 
Whose mad'ning love had reason overthrown, 
And hurled them from the battlements of time ; 
From penal fires they find a respite here; 
But still lament with many a sigh and tear. 

From yon embankment, guarding still the vale. 

Garrisoned by many a poplar tall, 

I once beheld the caravan, all pale. 

As moving to a midnight carnival : 

For some were cheerful, as in festal hall. 

And robed in white, while others were more sad — 

On one sat sorrow like a funeral pall — 

This one now wept, and then again seemed glad, 

While many a one, alas ! with love and grief was mad. 

Anacreon crowned with ivy, fresh and green. 
That twined among his bays, inebriate seemed ; 
Laughing full merrily, and sang some Queen, 
Forgot, alas ! where once her beauty beamed : 
Poor Dante* still of Beatrice dreamed ; 
Laura came sweeping by, as Petrarch sung. 
Smiled at his tears, indifierent how they stream'd ; 
And poor Tasso, his wild hair backward flung. 
Told in his eye, what woes his gentle bosom wrung. 



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Onward they move, a mighty host like these, 

And many a one, alas ! to fame unknown ; 

Poets who scorned a vulgar world to please, 

But lived and died their sorrows all their own ; 

And as they moved, with many a sigh and groan, 

Torquato wept, alas ! he knew not why, 

Saw vanishing the phantoms, one by one. 

Lifted, to heaven, his overflowing eye. 

And prayed for death as tho' 'twere some relief to die. 

Yiew them with scorn, ye cold, ungenerous few, 
Whose hearts have never known love's sacred flame, 
No hallowed transports are reserved for you — 
No niche of glory in the hall of fame ; 
The miser's meanness, and the villain's shame 
May yet be yours, and children of your lust — 
Poor brutes of passion — bastards, but in name, 
Shall be no pledge of virtuous Beauty's trust, 
Nor rise like flowers around to consecrate her dust. 

What nerves the patriot's arm, the scholar's mind ? 

Or wakes to ecstasy the living lyre? 

What name could thrill, with holy memories twined— 

Wafting sweet incense to angelic choir ; 

If lost Luigia,* lovely Leonoref 



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And one now living,* and whose smiles inspire 

(Pleiads that rose to shine on every shore) 

Were blotted out, with Love's celestial fire ? 

The bloom of Earth would fade, and Virtue's self expire. 

GREAT STATESMEN. 

Next came great statesmen, of the olden time: 

Cloud covered Webster, dreaming of the sun, 

Stood crying out in attitude sublime; 

" May your last lingering glance thro' victories won ; ^ 

" Behold yon banner, still on every shore ! 

" Union and Liberty forevermore !" 

Then Clay pacific, pointing to yon wall, 

Whose battlements a tale of ruin tell, 

Cried out exultingly — " In yonder Hall, 

We signed " the Compromises^'' ^ and slavery fell. 

For my whole life was sacrificed to gain, 

Freedom to labor ; from oppression's chain. 

Here let me stand — like Moses on the mount, 

My Country ! O, my Country ! ! to behold 

Thy rising centuries ! O who can count 

Yon gleaming stripes, and stars of burning gold ? 

Unconquered banner, tho' all ages rise, 

And kiss the last star that rushes from the skies ! 



♦Leila, with Laura live ! 

Such fading' plume from fancy's wing 

Is all I have to give. 

tLord Baltimore's Mansion, now in ruins, was once a favorite resort for poli- 
ticians. The Missouri Compromise was signed in its east wing. 

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Mighty Pacific how your curling crest 
Kneels to her Majesty, from pole to pole ! 
Ye golden Islands, sparkling in the west. 
Chained at her feet where conquered billows roll, 
And thou Atlantic — all ye nations kneel, 
To the same banner, with the joy I feel !" 

f Calhoun looked up — for crouching by the way, 

W He gathered up the fragments of a scroll — 

W Looked up imploringly and seemed to say: 

1^ " Are these your witnesses ! — this parchment old ? 

^ 'Twas once a bulwark riding o'er the sea ; 

§ LICENSE your name— Its name was LIBERTY." 

A And all around him, kneeling at his feet, 

rfj) Were wounded soldiers — women sobbing loud, 

^ And crying out : " Thou wonderful and great — 

^ Unheeded Prophet of the coming cloud, 

^ Behold our Country — Anarchy supreme! 

rfj) George in the van, and liberty a dream !" 

l«j Next Wirt the orator, sublime but sad, 

(jijl Points to yon shed where many a cofiin sighs,* 

j«j And thus recalled his home : " My childhood glad, 

rfjD Leaped from yon sill to gaze upon the skies; 

A And where the Sexton plies his mournful craft, 

My cradle rocked — The stars looked in and laughed. 

X " O, where my kindred, and the blazing fire ? 

^ The merry jest that mingled with its blaze ? 

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My gentle mother, and indulgent sire ? 
Friend and companion of those peaceful days ? 
My feet went forth upon a boundless sea — 
Alas ! the world ! the world ! its misery !" 

Then Hamilton with gory locks, and Burr, 
And Blanerhasset with his lovely bride; 
While mounted devils pressing in the spur, 
Went vaulting — leaping over them and cried : 
"Genius and knowledge, follow us to learn 
Your nothingness, where yonder fires burn." 

Thus did a thousand times ten thousand weep, 1^ 

'Til chanticleer proclaimed the coming day, 

When suddenly, some flew from steep to steep, 

To kiss the morning, on her bridal way. 

For heaven is light, and hopeful spirits fly. 

To catch a glimpse of Mary in the sky. 

^ While guiltier things, if such still lingered here ; 

Poor prodigals, without a ray of hope — 
Flew from the morning, to a covert near. 
Where murder stalks, and politicians grope. , 
Chiefly yon ruins hide them from the light. 
Once radiant with love and beauty bright. 

Shine on ye stars, or rather take your veil. 
For yonder comes the glorious king of day, 
Symbol of God, exalted brightness hail ; 
Yon moon and stars with hidden faces pray, 
And myriad altars, burning as they rise. 
Send up their love and incense to the skies ! 
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Yistas of glory come with dawning light — 
Historic manors blooming all around ; 
Yon Capitol, with dome and banner bright, 
Sits like a dew-drop on the grassy ground ; 
But O, what thunderbolts are sleeping there 
At Freedom's call to leap upon the air ! 

Banner of beauty springing up from fire, 
O'er fallen cities, smouldering around, 
Kise like the phoenix, and my harp inspire ! 
Louder the music ! Heaven and Earth resound 1 
Thunder thy battles ! Let thine eagle soar, 
And bear his thunderbolts to every shore ! 



Mt. Yernon — Arlington — yon dome attest. 

Now looking up to Parthenon, and thee. 

That North, and South— the mighty East and West, 

"Wherever billows roll or mortals be; ^ 

If once "CONFEDERATE" and to "UNION" given, ^T 

Must stand united, like the stars in Heaven ! 



RIYERDALE.* 

Hail seat of Princes, mournful Riverdale ; 
Thy broken arches, and each barren dell — 
Yon river, now without a bark or sail, 
Thy fallen chapel, and its silent bell ; 
Repeat the story told a thousand times. 
An epic sad — a song without its rhymes. 



Lord Baltimore's Manor, adjoining- Parthenon on the North. 



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^^ Are all your gallants sleeping with the dead ? 

^Q Your ladies bright — is not one left to smile? 

QQ E'en infancy that blossomed at your side, 

BQ Old age consumed — it withered here and died. 

1^ Yon ruins, and the graveyard, standing all 

In solemn sadness, and the hoary trees — 

The mildew, and the weeds upon the wall ; 
BM Could they but sing your sorrows; every breeze 

Ea Would wake yon broken harp and waft the while, ►x^ 

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In mournful silence, soon mu6t follow him, 
Whose portrait cere, and melancholy bust. 
Lend awful sadness to the twilight dim — 
Her pensive sighs, and shadows on the wall, 
Not his alone — but offered for us all. 



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Of pagan warriors — men of every creed — ^| 

No record, to recall them — not a bust, ^| 

Tho' yonder sun — still gazing on the scene, ^g 

Reveals alas ! the nothing they had been. iga 

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ea Can never wake a sleeping bosom there, ^ 

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ga In cold obstruction tliey are doomed to rot, 

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II To move one heart, or lift a fallen head ; 

II But God who made them — mighty now as then, 

II Breathes upon dust — behold it lives again ! 

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Beneath yon stone a nobleman is laid, 

Who fled from bigotry to freedom's home ; 

In yonder sky, his bannered cross displayed, 

With hope as lofty, as its Heavenly dome; 

Alas! the sun of liberty had set. 

And Freedom's " Dove "'•■ was only wandering yet ! 

For Bigotry pursued, and Maryland — 
First to proclaim upon her virgin sod, 
Welcome to all — to all a helping hand, 
A peaceful home, and altars to their God ; 
Was first to fall, and Hiverdalc to save 
A mess of pottage, owned herself a slave. 

Worse than a slave, for to a Tyrant's freak, 
She casts aside the Beautiful and True; 
And O, for what? thy plaincs, O Chesapeake? 
Thy hills that climb to yonder mountains blue! 
Alas! what ashes in their palms remain — 
One sandy hill from all the vast domain — 

That sandy hill, the heritage of all — 
A mess of pottage for each hungry soul. 
While winged Death keeps up his carnival 
With Lords, and Ladies in yon dismal hole: 
One sandy hill? 'Tis but a bit of earth, 
Where yonder tombs commemorate their birth ! 

But let them sleep, the faithful and the weak ; 
Nor thou Presumption, with intolerant gaze, 

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Revive their faults — sweet charity may speak 
Of all they suffered — all they hoped ; and raise 
A mantle from her loveliness to fall, 
And cover up the weakness of us all I 

For many a noble heart, and generous hands, 
Whate'er cheir faults, repose in yonder graves, 
In vain spread out their ever-blooming lands, 
O, vainer still their multitude of slaves! 
There let them sleep; with every fault forgot — 
All chained together in one lonely spot— 

Lo, on another side, where many a slave 
Went down from bondage ; to a refuge dear, 
Not e'en a shroud, to bind him in the grave; 
Only one Master to awake him here — 
A life of sorrow, and a death of pain ; 
The grave and rottenness — not rise again ? 

Here sleep the sturdy arms, and willing hands, 1^ 

That toiled thro' life, for grandeur and repose; 

To build yon mansion, turn the stubborn lands. 

And make the manor blossom as the rose ; 

Here each may rest, no longer now a slave — 

Tho' crowned with thorns — the thistle on his grave 

No marble bust, nor urn, nor statue here, 
Not e'en a tablet, nor a line to tell 
How faith, and duty, linked with grief and fear, 
Toiled for a master, and unhonored fell — 
Not e'en " th'unlettered muse," a vine to wreathe, 
Or o'er yon thistle, in her anguish breathe. 
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^ There let them sleep — The thistle flower bine — 

^ Tear-eyed and beantifnl, despite the thorn ; 

Looks up to Heaven, M^th a faith as true, 

^ As yonder lily " to the manor born ;" 

^ For " thistle danger " oft to valor bears 

^ " The flower of safety," if it bravely dareo! 

And he who falls unnoticed, and unknown ; 

^ No record to recount his patient toil ; 

^ Whether in battle, to the tempest blown, 

P Or sunk with brutes, that helped him till the soil. )^ 

If Truth, and Faith, and Fortitude prevail, 

P He needs no monument, to tell the tale. P 

w Neath yonder thistle sleeps a sooty breast ; ¥ 

¥ That gave its willing currents to a Lord ; w 

W Tho' dark* the bosom which his roses pressed ¥ 

P The stream that flowed, was whiter than a curd, ^ 

^ And the kind heart, that loved each tiny limb, ^ 

Y Nursed by the same fires, that nature gave to him. x 

ri^ Without a slab — low sunken in the grass, Y 

Her grave neglected, asks a bit of sod, v 

Behold its desolation ye who pass, ¥ 

But see her spirit, with your Mother's God ; ^ 

Bewail your fault, and for your children weep, ¥ 

Or write upon their tombs, " Eternal sleep .^" ¥ 

Yet who shall say that, in revolving 3'ears, ¥ 

No blessings come, from sorrows suft'ered here ? — ¥ 

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That rainbows never spring, from falling tears, ^ 

Nor flowers from vine, where only thorns appear : ^ 

That yonder plant, which stands in stately gloom, ^ 

Shall frown a hundred years, but never bloom ! ^ 

Pilgrims nncanonized, and yet sublime, p 

True to their God, and loving him supreme; ^ 

Without a footprint on the shores of Time, ^ 

Here sleep forever — but if spirits dream, ^ 

^^ May clasp the children on their bosoms nursed, ^ 

}^ And bless the very shackles they had cursed. ^ 

The conquering Chief, with palm upon his brow, ^ 

^ The Cavalier, and soldier Prince and Boor; ^ 

^ All in one valley ! What avails it now, ^ 

That one was mighty, or another poor? $ 

Each spirit bears its record to the skies, ^ 

^ 'Tis there alone that virtue wins the prize. (§) 

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5 . Then let us dwell with innocence alone, ^ 

^ In conscious greatness for the grief we know ; 

^ Whose shadowy mantle; covers every one ; 

^ And promises protection as we go. 

^ For Grief our mother dare not leave her child 

Wandering alone upon the mountains wild ! 



^ Tho' dark her visage— tho' her tears fall fjist, 

^ She clasps us to her bosom, more and more; 

§ O, swarthy bosom, will your currents last, 

^ 'Til my deep cup of misery runs o'er ? — 

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Even in death, 3'ou hold ns to your heart : 
Children, from whom you cannot — will not part. 

The brute you love not — never clasped the stars. 
The flowers are laughing, and the landscape bright, 
Only for man come up incessant wars 
Delusive hope — its pang — affection's blight — 
Yon tombs attest — yon ruins all his own. 
And grief undying clings to man alone. 

In every track he makes from Eden — see! 

What bloody drops! AVhat horrid thorns appear I 

From hopeful youth, to age declining, he 

But digs his grave — his shroud and coffin near! 

Bear up immortal, bravely if you can. 

For sorrow proves the dignity of Man ! 

Our Saviour's anguish and the tears He shed. 

The woes of all around us cry aloud ; 

Point to the silent chambers of the dead ; 
And sorrow stands to cover with a shroud ; 
Then up to duty — do the work of Time, 
And conscious Truth, will make our lives sublime- 
Down with repining; Darkness comes apace. 
Each life is short, behold the work to do. 
Turn to the tempest, with a flint-like face. 
Onward to duty — Faith can carry thro' — 
And falling bravely, leave your tracks to tell. 
To coming Yalor, how a brother fell ! 

Ye sable monuments — my lyre unstrung. 
Now let me leave upon a lonely grave ; 



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Not o'er a Lord — for adulation sung; 
But where yon grass, and thorny thistles wave: 
For Her, who nursed my childhood, let it sigh, 
'Til dews of pity tremble from the sky. 

Again to Parthenon ! as sailors long 
Imprisoned on the deep, return once more. 
To climb the mountain homeward, so my song 
Greets Parthenon — her river and its shore. 
Each walk meandering, and the quiet grove. 
Where Duty wanders, hand in hand with Love! 



||^ Thus did they walk an hundred years ago. 

When Virtue built in unpretending style. 
Yon modest mansion, with its ceilings low, 
Spanned by the portico whose sunny smile. 
Gives welcome still, but when a cloud goes by. 
Seems to admonish, and to breathe a sigh ! 

Gone the peach-blossoms, and the maple red, 
For Spring is melting into Summer's arms, 
But ere she weds him, and with drooping head. 
Surrenders all the sweetness of her charms. 
Her lingering songs, and fading flowers invite. 
To the gay grove, and rivulet as bright. 

And now yon city pours its reeking throng, 
More numerous than locusts to the groves; 
Yon woods resound with Bacchanalian song, 
Where gallants wander with their many loves : 
Exalted Nature, won at last by thee. 
They spurn the palace for the spreading tree. 
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Of melting melody to lieaven swells. 
While warmer suns, now burning on each tree, 
Leave tlie cool shade, to Happiness and mc. 



O, gorgeous wealth, and thou insatiate Prince, 
^^ Of Merchant Princes, sweltering in the town ; 

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la In happiness, nor drink from costly thing, ^ 

ea Water more cooling than his mountain spring ! eg 

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BQ Sloughed off from carcasses, on yonder stream — ea 

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Your tap'stered halls, with yonder beachen plank, |^ 

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Untrammelled by the stuccoed forms of town — 
Diamonds in every flower, an arch in every tree, 

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The forms of London and of Paris aped ; |1 

Where gilded splendor from the sewer starts, 

Society as well as sewer shaped 

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1^ Sweet buried hands ; one kiss before we part — 

m O, let me press you to my bleeding heart ! 

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1^ Thus dreaming oft, I gaze on many a face, 

II Dearer than life — now lost forevermore! 

11 Then look to Heaven, but failing there to trace 

II Their flying feet, survey the silent shore — 

II No foot-print there, no laughter on the wind — 

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Barney now drives his lowing herd afield 
And faithful Bridget follows, with her eyes 
Measuring what milk the foaming buckets yield ; 
Of Barney dreams, and blesses with her sighs. 
Ye roses, honeysuckles, hay new mown, 
Those honeyed sighs are sweeter than your own ! 

Barney will come again at eventide, 

But ere that hour, she listens for the cows ; 

Surveys the pasture and the mountain side, 

Only to see what way the cattle browse, ^p 

But all unconscious what a gathering storm, 

What hopes and. fears, her gentle bosom warm. ►J^ 

Behold yon reapers in the noon-day sun. 
Hark to their songs, advancing to the strife ; 
Where the prond swain had many a victory won — 
Pride of the village, and his plume in life ; 
Now marshalled all, they stand in bright array, 
Cradle in hand, and ready for the fray. 



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And now the lofty Rye, like Cossacks tall. 
Shoulder to shoulder, each with plumed head. 
Defies the Cycle, lo, battalions fall ! 
But from the ground a brighter lustre shed. 
Like soldiers, when to cycled death they yield, 
Still bright, with glory, on the Battlefield ! 

'Tis harvest home — yon maiden claps her hands. 
Her Barney leads the Battle, with its din — 
And now the reapers sit about in bands 
All wondering how the slender yoi^th could win — 
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'Twas nature's self — yon maid with pretty zone, 
Inspired his scythe, and made it all her own. 

Now, hand in hand, they wander to the spring, 

Yon willow branches veil the bride and groom ; 

O, trespass not thou base luxurious thing. 

From lofty couch, in yonder gilded room — 

Nature's pure offering — that mossy seat. 

Where Heaven and earth in sweet communion meet* 

Yon sexed flowers, tho' placed by Heaven apart, 
Are joined by insects, bearing to and fro, 
Sweet Pollen, passionate as human heart. 
Wherever forests wave, and flowers blow ; 
For this, on humming bird, the roses smile. 
And honeyed drops Hymeneal bees beguile.f 

For this yon wild pink sends up to the sky. 

Its spicy odors — spreads its colors sweet — 

Hoping to lure the wanton butterfly. 

From other flowers, with gold upon his feet ; 

Conscious as man (but in a low degree) ^ 

A living soul, without its spirit free. 

Not this the love yon painted creature knows. 
Sending a ghastly smile from teeth of ice, 

*Minnehaha Springs, Parthenon Grove. 

tDarwin has demonstrated that flowers have a seeming consciousness, and 
lure by their beauty, as well as their sweetness, the various insects, which convey 
the pollen to their bosoms. Even St. Thomas Aquinas distinguishes between the 
sensual and spiritual soul, and the sphinx moth leaves his dove-like image on the 
flower, "i€ St. Esprit." The UathoUc Review says "that orchids are fertilized by 
bees, moths, butterflies and various insect?. A very strange property belongs to 
many of them. Their bloom takes on a weird, inexplicable resemblance to the 
insect which carries the pollen from one flower to another." 

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^ With wimpling step — her corset for a vice — 

^ Nor love like bis — yon dude's in fashion's style; 

(§) Simpering to win ber mercenary smile. 

h Ratber tbe love of yonder children fair, 

P Two baby lovers — catching butterflies — 

^ Quoth she, " what kind of birds are these, my dear ?" 

$ Quoth be, " What kind o' birds ? Ha ! Ha!" His eyes 

^ Upon his baby sweet, his heart and check aglow, 

Q With happiness that art can never know. ^ 

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^ For this the lip of Beauty with its dews — ^ 

^ Thine own, O Nature, every look and tone! 

^ Inspired by thee — the trembling lover sues, ^ 

^ 'Til wrapped Elysium clasps her yielding zone; ^ 

^ Yet fools there be where yonder sages plod, ^ 

P Dissevering all this happiness from God ! P 

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^ Now thunder clouds come marching up the sky, p 

^ With lighter couriers, dashing to and fro ; ^ 

^ What fearful beauties break npon the eye ; 

^ What awful thunders shake the world below, P 

fWhat lightnings flash, what stormy wind and rain, p 

^ What floods, O Nature, desolate the plain ! ¥ 

Now clouds conceal thee, veiled the more in showers, 

New charms unfolding, in thy matchless form; ^ 

So passing beautiful, in sunny bowers — ^ 

More lovely now, tho' dreadful as the storm ; ^ 

And yonder rainbow, climbing up the skies, 

Like hope illusive, lights them up and dies — 

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Illusive? Aye — yon maiden at the spring, 
Poor Barney's bead upon her pulseless breast, 
Botb smitten by the lightning's fiery wing; 
Their hopes and fears forevermore at rest ! 
O, better thus, than wrinkled o'er with care 
To sink into the grave without a loving tear. 

Better, ten thousand times, than watch a flower, 
Budding and blooming up to manhood's form ; 
To find upon it, in a mournful hour, 
Debauchery, more dreadful than the storm — 
Keener than lightnings, to dissolve the soul. 
And hurl it down where louder thunders roll 1 

O, better thus, like yonder rainbow spring 

To beaming happiness, on Beauty's smile. 

Then fly from tempest, on the lightning's wing. 

Than plod along, thro' many a weary mile. 

Only to find the Paradise we claim. 

Planted with thorns, and covered o'er with shame. 

In long array, now winding from the grove. 
Yon burial escort bears its dead along ; 
The birds are silent, save that yonder dove 
Gives back antiphonal the funeral song. 
If this be all, O, Sexton, hold awhile! 
Let Hope expire, and Nature cease to smile! 

But see yon rainbow ! Sexton, let them down. 
No Princely chamber has a stronger wall; 

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No Monarch claims a more enduring crown ; 
For who can covet what must come to all ? 
Its ice-cold band, as cold on Bridget now, 
As when it fell on Cleopatra's brow ! 

Gone is the rainbow, with its laughing rain ; 
Symbolical of human hopes and fears ; 
Earth's sweetest joy, the counterpart of pain. 
As the bright rainbow, redolent of tears ; 
Sing on ye songsters — bloom ye flowers bright. 
For Nature's next vicissitude is night. 

Toss, toss, your diamonds O, ecstatic grove. 

Throw your sweet kisses to returning peace; 

The Heavens bow down, to bless you with their love ; 

The clouds are passing, and the showers cease; 

In bridal beauty kiss the wanton wind. 

With a sweet love that leaves no sting behind ! 



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Farewell to Bridget — Barney faretheewell ! 
The great may smile, contemptuous of my lyre, 
That finds a moment with your dust to dwell. 
While tears unbidden quench its wonted fire. 
Your virtues plead, and angels bend to hear 
What splendor scorns and wicked spirits fear. 



Splendor indeed ! (?) See Hildcbrand afar ! 
When shall mankind behold another man ? 
Prince of all Princes — Earth's sublimest star, 
His jpeasant mother in the Vatican ! 
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Jesus and Joseph — Marj ye despise — 
Look up, and see the splendor of the skies I 



Who now lifts up his trumpet voice in Rome, 
Defending labor? — holding to his heart 
His children as a mother in her home. 
From whom her bosom cannot, will not part! 
Say who, while Gibbons struggles for the poor, 
Despise their tears, and drive them from the door ! 



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Who rule the Nations? — not yon groveling lords- 
Filthy Lord Campbell, nor the filthier Duke, 
Luring a wanton by lascivious words, 
Till the heart sickens and the nations p — ke ! 
O, M'hat are they to yonder Prince refined, 
Jlis only heritage a heavenly mind ! 



Say, who the princes living on like stars, 
Bound to no pent-up continent or shore — 
Above the world- — above Ambition's wars, 
Living and shining on forevermore ! 
From Hildebrand to Gibbons, see your kings; 
And learn to smile upon yon meaner things. 



Yes, smile upon them, but with merry laugh, 
Behold their silly apes in Washington ; 
O, turn my lyre from such unworthy chaff, 
And gaze upon your Dead at Parthenon. 



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BY 



JAMES CHARLES EOGEES, Esq. 



IN THE 



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reme Court of \\)e District of oolumbla. 



GENERAL TERM, Jan. 1887. 



IN EQUITY. 



J. HARRIS ROGERS, 

c.«. 
U. S. Att'7 Gcn'l AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND, 
e^eniilor ISHAM G. tiAHUIS, 
Member Uongress CASEY YOUNG, 
Indian Com'r J. D. C. ATKINS. 
II. K. Com'r JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, 



Docket 10,051 



Hon. JOHN CRITCHER, 
J. W. ROGERS, 
JOHN CRITCHER. Jr., 
JAMES CHARLES ROGERS, 



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PROPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS, UNDER WHICH, BY 
ACCEPTING, THEY ACQUIRED THEIR RESPECT- 
IVE INTERESTS IN COMPLAINANT'S 
VARIOUS PROPERTIES. 



[Exhibits "A" aud " C" of the bill] 

We, therefore, propose to public consideration a power- 
ful corporation to possess, a little in the future, vast lab- 
oratories, learned electricians, and skilled mechanics, 
standing ready to seize upon and develope whatever may 
be presented in the light of its influence, capital and ^^ 
genius — nor, would it seem extravagant to say that such 
a corporation, with its new methods, might convert great ►J^ 
coal fields into torrents of electricity — that it might, in 
time, harness the very waves, clouds, water-falls and 
winds to generate this mysterious agent of nature — and 
that busy marts and thoroughfares, with their bankers, 
tradesmen and pompous fashions, may soon be seen thous- 
ands of miles distant through the ieleinorjjhe, riding in 
carriages without horses, cars without steam — all lighted 
)^ up by electric suns, in a new and enchanting civilization ! 
One-tenth interest will be sold, only to monied men 
applying for it, at a merely nominal price, to construct 
machinery, and other interests will be sold at auction on 
the New York Stock Exchange for what it may bring; 
but it is confidently predicted that the stock will ulti- 
mately go greatly above par. It may require years to 
afiect this result, for we depend in no way upon Stock 
jobbing operations, but upon a manly and scientific 
developement of real values which stand on their 
intrinsic merits. 

Parties investing, must examine through their own 
electricians, experts and lawyers, who will judge whether 
the inventions are valuable or not ; so that if they should, 
by unseen possibilities be. less valuable than we suppose, 

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no stockholders can plead ignorance. It is a venture for 
enormous profits or a trifle — tlie Company has so ven- 
tured, and would rather keep its stock and take its own 
chance of profit and loss, than to be responsible for the 
many defects which exist in every new invention. 



CONTRACT OP THE PAN-ELECTRIC STATESMEN, BY 

WHICH THEY GAVE THE VERBAL CONTRACT 

A WRITTEN FORM. 



[Exhibit " B."] 

►t^ "Be it known that these articles of agreement, 

drawn up and entered into in the city and State of New 
York, on the 13th of March, eighteen hundred and 
eighty-three, by and between James Harris Rogers, a 
resident of the city of AVashington, in the District of 
Columbia; of Joseph E. Johnston, also a I'csident of the 
city of Washington, in the District of Columbia ; Augus- 
tus H. Garland, a resident of the city of Little Rock, 
in the State of Arkansas; John D. C. Atkins, a resident 
of the city of Paris, in the county of Henry, in the State 
of Tennessee ; Isham G. Harris, and Casey Young, 
residents of the city of Memphis, in the State of Tennes- 
see, witnesseth : 

■ " That, whereas the said James Harris Rogers is the 
owner of sundry valuable improvements, discoveries, and 
inventions in respect to and concerning the various uses, 
properties, and application of electricity, as a heating, 
lighting, motive, transmitting, and receiving power of 
agency, and which said improvements, discoveries and 
inventions are secured to aforesaid James Harris Rogers, 
by Letters Patent, already issued to him as the author 
thereof, or by application filed therefor, in the oftice of 
the Commissioner of Patents 'of the United States of 



America, the same being known, designated and described 
as follows : that is, those which are already patented, to 
wit: 

" ' An Invention, styled Embossed Tclegrapli,' and 
numbered on the books of the Patent Office in Washing- 
ton City, No. 130,602. 

'"An Invention for improvement of Electric Light,' 
numbered 210,100. 

'"An Invention for a Central Telephonic System,' 
numbered 208,29i. 

'"An Invention for a Telephonic Repeater,' numbered 
269,326. 

" Upon all of which patents have been already granted 
to the aforesaid James Harris Rogers. Tiiere is also cm- ' 
braced in these articles of agreement the following ' 
inventions, for which applications for patents have been i 
made co wit : i 

"'An Invention for Cylindrical Automatic Tclegra- | 
phy,' numbered 87,34^0. 

'"An Invention stjled a Telephonic] Transmitter,' 
numbered 80,5 5. 

'"An Inventioned styled the Duplex and Quadruplex 
Telegraph,' numbered 15,734, 

'"An Invention styled Thermotelemetre,' numbered 
i 10,933. 

" An Invention styled a Sub-marine Cable with insula- 
tion, numbered 09,966, only one-half of which last men- 
tioned invention is, however, included in these articles 
of agreement. For all of the last-mentioned inventions, 
applications have been filed in the Patent Office as afore- 
said. And there is also embraced in this agreement the 
following inventions, for which no patents have been is- , 
sued, nor applications made for the same; but which the 
said James Harris Rogers proposes hereafter to obtain, 
if the same can be obtained from the Commissioner of 
Patents, to wit: 'Igniting Gas by Dynamo Machines;' 
'Generating Electricity directly from Coal;' 'An Elcc- 
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trical Enumerator and Calculator,' and all other inven- i 
tions and discoveries in electricity lipretot'ore made bj i 
the said James Harris Rogers, the title to which still | 
remains in him. 

" And whereas the said James Harris Rogers is desirous 

of further developing and putting into practical working ' 

operation the improvements, discoveries, and inventions, ' 

I and for the purpose of obtaining tiie aid and assistance ( 

f in the iurtheranco and accomplishment of this object of ( 

^ the persons herein named, is also desirous of forming an ( 

M\ association or joint stock company with the said Joseph , 

1^ E. Johnston, Augustus H. Garland, John D. C. Atkins, 

^ Isham G. Harris, and Casey Young. ' 

P " Now, therefore, all the above-named persons hereby ( 

9 mutually agree to constitute themselves an association ( 

^ or joint stock company, for the objects and purposes ( 

^ above set out, upon tlie following terms and stipulations : ( 

rfj) " First. It is mutually agreed and understood by all ) 

X. the parties hereto, that as among themselves, the value 

¥ of said improvements, discoveries, and inventions, shall ' 

]F be estimated at one million dollars. ( 

P "That this amount shall be divided in ten (10) equal ( 

^ parts or shares, four of which are to be held and owned ( 

h by the said James Harris Rogers, and one (1) each by (^ 

rfjj the said Jos. E. Johnston, Augustus H. Garland, Joim 

T D. C. Atkins, Isham G. Harris, and Casey Young; and 

¥ the other part or shares shall be jointly held by the com- 

P pany to be disposed of in such a manner as the members 

P thereof think lit. 

^ "Second. It is further mutually agreed by the parties 

to this agreement, that they will, as soon as the same can 
^ be done, procure a charter of incorporation, constituting 
X, themselves a corporate body, under the name and style 
¥ ] of the ' Fan-Electric Company " embracing under such 
P charter of incorporation such objects and powers as they 
may deem proper and as are allowed to incorporate bod- 
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other State in which said charter of incorporation may 
be obtained. 

" Third. It is also agreed that when the aforesaid per- 
sons are incorporated as a corporate body, as hereinbe- 
fore provided, all the capital stock of said corporation 
shall be the joint property of this company, and it may 
issue, sell, or otherwise dispose of so much thereof as 
they may see fit, provided that no individual member 
shall dispose of any interest acquired under these arti- 
cles of agreement at less than the face value thereof with- 
out the assent of the executive committee, hereinafter 
provided for. 

"And all interests, jointly held by the company, and 
which may be sold as aforesaid, and disposed of by direc- 
tion of the aforesaid executive committee, shall be sold >^ 
for the joint benefit of the company. 

Provided further. That the said James Harris Rogers 
shall have the right to dispose of, to such persons as ho 
may see fit, an interest in the property of the company 
hereinbefore enumerated, amounting to the sum of one 
hundred and seventy thousand dollars ($170,000) upon 
the basis of a capital stock of five millions of dollars 
($5,000,000). 

" Fourth. It is also further stipulated and agreed that 
the aforesaid parties to this agreement may admit others 
to membership in this Association or company upon such 
terms and conditions as they may prescribe; it being 
understood that they are the joint owners of all the pro- 
perties, rights of franchises herein set out or referred to. 

" Fifth. And it is also agreed that until the said charter 
of incorporation shall be procured, the company organ- 
ized, and the board of directors elected thereunder, there 
shall be chosen from the persons above mentioned an 
executive committee of three who shall conduct the bus- 
iness and afi'airs of the conipan}'', and direct the doing 
of such things as may be needed to do for the furtherance 
of the objects herein set out. And any expenses incur- 

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red for the doing of the same, may assess pro rata upon 
tlie members of the company to the amount of one hun- 
dred and fifty dollars ($150) each ; and no greater sum 
shall be assessed without authority from a majority of the 
members. 

" And should any member be unwilling to pay the 
amount which may be assessed against him as aforesaid, 
he may withdraw from the company upon such terms as 
the remaining members thereof may impose or he may 
be expelled by a majority vote ; the persons so withdraw- 
ing, or being expelled, shall, however, be acquitted of all 
liability to the company or on its account. 

" Sixth. The parties to this instrument hereby stipula- 
ted and agree to pay in the manner, and to the amount 
1^ hereinbefore specified, the expense which may be neces- 
sarily incurred in perfecting the inventions, discoveries, 
and improvements herein set out and in practically dem- 
onstrating their uses and value. 

" Seventh. And in consideration of the last preceding 
article, it is stipulated and agreed by the said James 
Harris Rogers that any improvements which he may here- 
after make upon any of the discoveries or inventions 
embraced in this instrument, or any further inventions 
or discoveries which he may make that are necessary to 
perfect those already made, applied for, or in contempla- 
tion, shall be the joint property of the Pan-Electric Com- 
pany, provided, however, that the company shall pay any 
expense he may incur in making the same. 

" Eighth. The executive committee hereinbefore pro- 
vided for, shall have the power, if in their judgment the 
same shall become necessary for the furtherance of the 
objects and purposes of this Association to agree with 
other parties to sell them such interests in the properties 
of this company or association as they may see proper, 
giving such persons a written or printed certificate, in 
which it shall be stipulated that the purchasers of such 
interest shall receive therefor a certificate for such share 



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or shares of stock in the Pan Electric Company, when 
organized, at such a vahiation as the said executive 
committee may determine upon. 

"And it is agreed that said executive committee shall 
consist of Joseph E. Johnston, James Harris Rogers, and 
Casey Young. 

" Ninth. The domicile or place of business of this 
company or association shall for the present be in the 
city of Washington, District of Columbia. 

" Tenth. These articles of agreement may be altered 
or amended at any time at the option of two-thirds of 
the parties in interest. 

"In witness of all of which we have hereunto set our 
seals, in the city and state aforesaid, on the day and date 
above written. 

"JAMES HAKRIS ROGERS, 
JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. 
By his attorue}^-in fact, Isham G. Harris. 

A. H GARLAND. 
By his attorney-in-fact, Isham G. Harris. 
JOHN D. C. ATKINS. 
ISHAM G. HARRIS. 
CASEY YOUNG." 



[seal.] 
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SYNOPSIS OF COMPLAINANT'S BILL. 
I. 



(1). Defendants got possession of complainants pro- 
perty without ever paying any one of the many consid- 
erations promised. 

(Sections 5, 6, 8, 9, 39, 40. 

(-). Defendants were guilty of committing Gross 
frauds upon coniplainant, which though not set out in 
totidem verbis, are apparent in the facts admitted by the 
demurrer. (Sections 15, 30, 3'<, 38, 39, 40). (Demurrer 
should have denied fraud and conspiracy). 

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II. 



(1). Whether " the association " was a partnership or 
not, it was certainly a Joint stock company, m embrio, 
which printed the stock promised, but refused to issue 
the same, or give the complainant the part of it for 
which he hsid paid. (Sections 9, 15, i6). Preamble to 
Exhibit B, immediately before Section First. 



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fendants broke faith with, and defrauded the complainant |^ 

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ia forming it. (Sections 5, 9, Exhibit ii). |a 

R^ (2). If no partnership was formed, by not forming it, |^ 

Ea (same). eh 

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1^ which they promised to assist in procuring, and by not H 

Eia issuing its stock or any stock when they became appre- eei 

urn hensive that stoch johhing would interfere with their uu 

II political aspirations. (Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 20, 25, 27, 30, H 

II 31,39,40). _ , ; ^ 

ma (4). By refusing to issue, even to the present time the 

p3 joint stock company stoch and the Telegraph company 

m stock, after prevailing on plaintiff to assign his patents 

Ea and after putting him to the expense of printing both 

ea these stocks. (Sections 3C, also 43, 41, 44, 49, unprinted). 

11 (5.) By refusing to issue the telephone stock, (the only 

II patents in litigation) until too late to use it on account 

nm of litiqatio7i. (Same.) 

mm (6.) By drawing large amounts of money without com- 

1^ plainant's consent, from mere hald sales of his patents; 

Ea which sales they never, themselves, even effected, but 

UM complainant's agent. Loony, did. (29, 39.) 

II (7.) By appropriating large sums, by his consent, which 

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they fraudulently obtained, by false promises, and in this 
instance more money than he ever consented to. (29, 39.) 

(8.) By keeping from him the books of all the com- 
panies, so that he could never get an account from either. 
(Sections 50 and 51.) 

(9.) By "jumbling all the accounts together in a dis- 
orderly manner, and holding complainants moneys there- 
under, without ever rendering him an account conform- 
able to his rights. (Sections 29, 50, 51.) 

(10.) By inducing plaintiff, by false promises, to sell 
interests for money in which they participated to his dis- ^ 
advantage. (29, 34.) }[ 

(11.) By retaining interests in his patents yet unsold, ?« 
and holding the same tied up against '■'■jpuhlic policy " to ^ 
the restraint of trade. (3 'J.) ^ 

(12.) By retaining moneys for which jpart interests 
were sold for the WTi-incorporated company, such as Sen- 
ator Test's. (24, 29 and Ex. G.) 

(13.) By retaining the stocks for which other interests 
were sold to corporations. (24, 34.) 

(14.) By retaining money from State rights, sold by 
the Telephone Company, controlled by themselves (see 
35) without giving complainant either all his stock in 
said Telephone Company (which Casey Young swears 
^ before the Congressional Committee to be due complain- 
ant, but withheld by his — Young's — " mistake^^) or a just 
proportion of money and local stocks as dividends due 
him, (See's 24, 29, 34.) 

(15.) By so confusing the numerous company accounts, 
that many suits at law would become necessary to approx- 
imate their settlement. (Sections 50, 51, 24, ::9, 34.) 

(16.) By holding plaintiff's property so bound, that 
they can, at any time procure the universal charter prom- 
ised, which, '\i against public jyolicy, he, non pari delicto, 
now wishes to prevent. (Prayers for dissolution — espe- 
cially prayer for general relief.) 

Hence complainant says that their demurrer admits all 

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these things to be true, and that they should not be per- 
mitted to come in at the eleventh hour whining that their 
contract was against ptiblic policy ; and that therefore 
they may go off with complainant's money and patents. 
He therefore prays : 

First. (If a partnership exists) that it may be dissolved 
and accounts taken, &c. 

Second. If it does not exist, that under the general 
prayer, part owners be dealt with in Equity according to 
universal practice. (Adam's Equity 247.) 

Third. That a recision be made quoad what the defend- 
ants, as individuals, now hold or claim in the premises ; 
and that they be required to turn to the plaintiff all his 
unsold inventions now tied up, against puhlic policy, and 
1^3^ running to waste — 4 years in the life of patents, admitted 
by defendants, to be worth millions to the public. (Ex- 
hibit A and C.) 

Fourth. That they be required to transfer to plaintiff 
all the stocks and moneys which they have unjustly 
acquired, directly, or indirectly, from his inventions / 
and such other things as the Honorable Court may 
decree. 



[Appendix C, page 27.] 



It is certainly worthy of observation that Home was 
acknowledged by the whole world to be the centre and 
seat of Christianity — the very roclx, on which her " anchor 
was thrown !" 

Is it not marvellous that all the Fathers (nearly all in 
conquered provinces where Kome was hated) should 
without hesitation acknowledge this overbearing and 
tyranical city, instead of Jerusalem or Antioch (even 
while the tyrant was persecuting), to be the head or 
centre of Christianity ? All the holy fathers lifted their 
hands and hearts with awe and veneration to Kome. 

Hermas, spoken of by St. Paul, in his epistle to the 

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Romans, chapter XVI, sends his theological book 
''''Pastor " to the Roman Inquisition if you please, to 
be examined and approved by Pope Clement, who is 
also spoken of in Scripture — not to the Bishop of Jeru- 
salem nor Antioch nor yet to St. John, then living, but 
to Rome! 

St. Ignatius^ instructed by an apostle — the breath of 
St. John still warm on his head, proclaims the decisions 
of the Pope authoritative for the whole world : 



Quae docendo praecipitis. %% 

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T St. Polycarp, old and decrepid (nearly 80 years of age) 

^ destined soon to embrace the flames, makes a painful 
P journey from France to Rome, to consult Pope St. Ani- 
P eetus, on the subject of Easter — Why, Jeff Davis would 
^ hardly visit Cleveland by rail to ask his guidance — being 
rfj) himself President of a Republic ; but thousands of states- 
/jijj men do. Is it because Cleveland lives in a big town ? 
T O, no, it is because he has Jui'isdAction over the whole 
^ country. 

^ St. Irenaeus, St. Polycarp's disciple, exclaims : " All 

^ the Churches necessarily hang on Rome, as the waters 
^ depend on the fountain^ and as the body depends on its 
(J5) head " (excuse this too literal, and yet too prolix trans- 
cta lation ; 1 am not aiming at elegant diction but truth). 
His very words are: Omnes a Roma Eclesia necesse est 
pendent, tanquam a fonte et capite.* Again : ad hanc 
enim Eclesiam necesse est om^nem connenire Eclesiam, in 
qua ah his, qui sunt undique jidedes conservata est ea, 
quae ah apostolus est., traditio. 

For it is necessary for all the churches to come together, 
at this Church, in which is preserved, through the faith- 
ful everywhere, that tradition which is from the 
Apostles — Indeed ! Did the faithful, from every quar- 
ter of the globe, bend their steps to Rome, and there 



*Iven. Lib. 3. Ado. Heres : 4 1. 5. Adv. Heres. 
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deposit all the traditions, even before the great tradition 
the JVew TestaTnent, had been authoritatively collected, 
and promulgated by the Pope ! Again (translated by 
Father Weneger) he says ; " If we remain firm in our 
allegiance to the /See of St. Peter, we shall easily discon- 
cert the malice of those who, either through conceited- 
ness or bad faith, broach new fangled themes at variance 
with sound doctrine." 

Tertullian, also of the 2d century, says : " I learn that 
an edict has been promulgated, and that indeed the 
Sovereign Pontifi* — Bishop of Bishops — has proclaimed it 
•— ■ peremptory !" Peremptory ? Csesar ? Cleveland ? No — 
^ the Pope ! 

P Tertullian, who seems to have fallen entirely from 
the Catholic faith and become a Montanist (the Millerites 
h of antiquity), was, nevertheless, the most learned of men, 
^ and, therefore, a competent witness to the fact, that 
jjih when the apostles were scarcely cold in their graves, and 
¥ when Calvary was yet radiant, and warm, and dear to 
^ the hearts of Christians, a city far away from their dear 
w Jerusalem, and envied and hated by the Provinces, was, 
^ nevertheless, ackowledged to be the See of Peter, the 
h centre of Christianity, and the source of all ecclesiasti- 
cal jurisdiction. But why pursue the subject of patristic 
(jij. testimony? Origen, St. Cyprian, St. Jerome, St. Basil, 
¥ St. Augustin Ongin, all — all are unanimous, exclaiming: 
^ Koma locuta, causa finita est : Quod non armis, Re- 
^ ligioni vicisti, urbs Aeterna!* 
$ _ ^ . ^_ 

O * Jam, modo, qua f uerant silvas peoorumque recessus, 

jk Ui-bs erat, (Mernce qum pater urbis ait: 

O Arbiter armorum, de cujus, sanguine natus 

M. Credor ; et, ut credar pig-nora multa dabo : 

IP A te principium romano ducimus anno ; 

jk Primus de patrio nomine mensis eat. )) 

(P Vox rata fit ; patrioque vocat de nomine mensem. 

jk Dtcitnr htec pietas grata fuisse dec. 



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[Page 30, Appendix " D."] 

What stupendous follj to suppose that civilization and 
learning came with the 16th century ! And yet, how 
many learned knaves beguile the multitude by asserting it ! 

Already had Bernado chanted his Amadige, and all 
Christendom, though disturbed for a term by Luther, still 
hangs with delight on Tasso's harp. Dante, nearly 300 
years before the great rebellion in Germany and England, 
had traversed Heaven and earth and hell. The lurid 
flames of his Inferno still startle each rising generation, 
and furnish great sermons for preachers. Boccacio, sur- 
passing Orpheus, sang his Teseide ; invented Ottava rima, 
and stayed the black plague by arresting fear and dread 
as he beguiled the imagination with his immortal Decam- 
erone. 

PAINTING. 

Titian, Raphael, and Michael Angelo had brought all 
Heaven down on canvas, while their predecessors and 
disciples filled Europe with monuments of art that still 
survive, and must live forever. 

Titian was born 30 years before the Reformation ; 
i^ attracted universal admiration, and was invited to the 
courts of Pope Leo the 10th and Charles V. Though born 
30 years before the Reformation, he was not by any means 
the founder of his art in Italy ; for, as a modern Protest- 
ant beautifully expresses it, " he broke completely away 
from the intensity of Floreiitine art and the mysticism 
of the Sienese, and turned to revel in the material gran- 
deur which had reached its height in the ])ride of Vene- 
tian luxury. His style is large and sane, like his nature, 
and his art a golden mean of joy, unbroken by a brusque 
movement of the passions ! " 

" His was the vigor of exquisitely balanced faculties ; 
his, above all, the sublime sense of color and the mastery 
of pure tints in subtle interplay. Each master-piece is a 
chromatic symphony, aglow with the fervor of Yenetian 



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Biinset, luminous with the haze of lagoons, shot through 
with the inmost purple of light, radiant with the pearly 
gleam of flesh, tremulous with silver light and golden 
mysteries of shadow." " There is," says Ruskin, " a 
strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his 
name, which means the deep consent of all great men that 
he is greater than they ; that there is a softness more ex- 
quisite than Corrigio's ; a purity loftier than Leonardo's ; 
a force mightier than Kembrandt's; a serenity more aw- 
ful than Raphael's ! 

But why pursue the subject of painting to see whether 
civilization came with poor Martin Luther ? 



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SCULPTURE. 



Who but Phydias, and his disciples in Greece, ever 
made " the marble speak, " until Catholicity developed 
sculpture in Europe ? Even the Romans of antiquity 
produced no great sculptor. 

Pizarro's " deposition from the Cross appeared, and 
preached its great sermons to mankind just 300 years be- 
fore Henry YIII beheld the lovely form of Annie Boleyn, 
and more than 250 years before Martin Luther had kissed 
his apostate nun. Even before the time of Pizarro, Catho- 
lic artists had covered the facades of Lombardy with dra- 
matic groups of surpassing loveliness, and gothic artists 
adorned the churches and porches of Europe with unri- 
valled forms of beauty. In the 15th century Catholic 
Germany gave to religion and art the great works of 
Yischer, Schonhoffer, and Kraff. The Tuscan masters — 
Dela Querela, Brumelleschi, Ghiberti, and Donatello, en- 
chanted mankind and developed civilization. The Gates 
of the Florentine Abbey, by Ghiberti, are supreme speci- 
mens of art, and the names of Robia, Gucci, Benedito, 
bring us to the Renaissance, lighted up by the genius of 
Michael Angelo. " He moulded," says a Protestant 
writer, " the mixed motives of contemporary sculpture 
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mm 

II into marvelous ideals of vehement motion and Dantesque 

ma dignity." Dante, Titian, Michael Angelo ! Their very 

Ba names a watchtower and a light forever ! And yet, we 

1^ are gravely told by preachers, that all these thousand lu- 

Ba minaries, already referred to, vt-ere as nothing compared 

SSI to Henry VIII, Luther, Calvin, Servetus, and Annie Bo- 

ia leyn ? That the court of Pope Leo X, beaming with 

H science, letters, art, and piety ; pales before the painted 

Bia courtiers of Elizabeth, and that the whole world was a 

Bia chaos, until passion gratiHed, rose up and invented Inciter 

B^ matches, Plymouth Church, the Salvation Army, and 

II dynamite! 

B^ MUSIC. 

Gia Divine music had already enchanted the world, and the TjOI 

Eg spirit of St. Cecilia lifted mankind to the gate of Heaven. ^| 

1^ A monk had invented the gamut 500 years before the ^| 

^9 lascivious songs of the 16th century began to attract man- ^U 

Eg kind. " A Climbing up the Golden Stairs" was then un- tia 

yg known, and its author, now in the penitentiary, had not [jy 

II been born. The church, however, had adopted all that {^| 

mm was grand and awful and sublime in music, while the f^ 

wm most gentle and refined society sighed to the harp, or cjg 

'^ danced to the rebec, for there was nothing sombre about |:'^ 



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Catholic civilization ; and yet, an exquisite and beautiful, 

but dim, religious light pervaded everything. If Ilaphael L'3 

_ - _ _ - . ^[3 



and Michael Angelo knelt to the Blessed Virgin when- 
they took their pencils, so in every art religion was hon- 
ored : and musical notation, iust referred to, as invented irsa 
by a Benedictine monk in Arizzo, was sanctified by the pa 
hymn to St. John 500 years before Henry VIII in an ex ^g 
2^(jst/aGto acrostic: ^| 

MM 

Ut queant laxis EB 

Resonare flbris, EM 

Mira g'estoriim Ella 

Famuli tuorum ; ESQ 

Solve polluti Bia 

Labii reatum, BQ 

Sanete loannes.* BS 

. - au 

* Ut, i-e, mi, fa, so, la, sa. rirs 

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ma 

In the 14th and 15th centuries great advances developed H 

this art. Joaquin des Pres was known all over Europe. ea 

Fare's Italian opera, Eurydice, was sung in Florence be- ea 

fore the 16th century, and but for these developments of H 

a purely Catholic art, neither Handel, Haydn, Mozart, sa 

Beethoven, Cherubini, Rossini, nor Bach might now be Ea 

known. efl 

• Ba 

ca 

[Appendix " O," page 39.] Ba 

In Frince George's County, five miles northeast of H 
Washington, is Green Hill, the manor house of Chillam |^ 
Castle Manor, portion of an old grant of 8,000 acres to ea 
rw^ Dudley Diggs, of the family of Sir Dudley Digges of ea 
g^ Chillam Castle, England, (Chiselholme,) Master of the || 
mi Rolls under King Charles I. || 
ia In a copse of cedars, in a secluded spot, in the garden, uu 
1^ not far from the mansion, is the ancient family burial 4,u 
1^ place. The ruins of the tenements of the former deni- || 
Win zens of the hallowed soil lie crumbling around. Three |a 
|-^ lonely and unmarked graves remain to commemorate the Ba 
1^ solemn former uses of the spot. In the largest, over six || 
ia feet in length, lies what remains after 61 years of the per- || 
II ishable mortality of Major Feter Charles L'Enfant. His ^ 
la only companions in that garden of death are a child and ^ 
^1 a suicide, buried by superstitious slaves diagonally in his 
F:^ grave. The fond hands of kindred and friends have ten- 
II derly conveyed to consecrated ground the remains of those 
^1 who once gathered here, as the skeleton harvester made 
Ba his rounds. A. sighing pine, drawing its vigorous life 
lia from the very earth which envelopes the ashes of L' En- 
la fant, attuned by the breezes of heaven, carries the inspir- 
it ation of his genius into never-ending requiem. Nature, 
Ra more generous than man, has drawn over the lonely mound 
nn a mantle of myrtle, like a pall of perennial green. 

QQ ' l'enfant's cakeer. 

QQ The career of L'Enfant and its sequel presents a toueh- 

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eaiiayakiiai^ayaiuaksak^a&^atiiaitLi^dri:?' 



ing illustration of the munificent gifts of genius, the no- 
bility, of a human soul, the littleness of men, and the 
ingratitude of a nation. Peter Charles L'Enfant was 
born in France about 1755. He was an ofiicer in the 
French line. He came to America about 1777, and gave 
his heart and sword to the cause of liberty. In 1778 he 
was a captain of engineers in the continental army. His 
bravery was displayed on every occasion. At Savannah 
he was badly wounded and taken prisoner in the assault 
by Count D'Estang. In 1782 he was exchanged, and a 
year later was promoted to major of engineers. 

THE PLAN OF WASHINGTON. 

This priceless souvenir of the nation's capital in em- 
bryo, much faded by the lapse of time, is preserved in the 
office of Col. John M. Wilson, engineer in charge of pub- 
lic buildings and grounds, Washington meddled with it 
somewhat in the interests of a speculating friend who 
owned land, and marred the symmetry and beauty of the 
grounds in the front of the President's house. The exe- 
cution of the plan commenced by its projector did not 
long remain in his hands. One of the discreditable acts 
of Washington was his treatment of the accomplished 
w engineer. The powerful Carroll, of Duddington, having 
built a house in one of the avenues laid dovvn on the plan, 
the engineer proceeded to remove it. Washington, in 
1792, yielded to the injustice of Carroll's demands, and, 
against the wishes of many interested in the carrying for- 
ward of the work, assented to L'Enfant's removal. — 
Washington paper. 

Pan-electric statesmen may now plume themselves on 
Ending a, glo7'ious precedent / But the Supreme Court, 
now trying the Pan-Electric case, however grateful for 
Mr. Cleveland's and Garlandh patronage, will not repay 
their favors by crying out " JEcrassez VEnj.'ant ! " 



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[Appendix " MN," page 48.] 

The fallen oak thus complained to an unknown tree, 
supposed to be the large hickory still standing by the 
spring, where the author and Col. Looney sported in pros- 
perity. 

Conquerar, an taceam ? ponam sine nomine crimen ? 

An notum, qui sis, omnibus esse velim ? 
Nomine non utar, ne commendere querela, 

Quasraturque tibi carmine fama meo. 
Dum mea puppis erat vaiida fundata carina, 

Qui mecum velles currere primus eras. 
Nunc, quia contrixit vultum Fortuna, recedis, 

AuxiJio postquam scis opus esse tuo. 

AKOHITECTURE. 

An architecture, purely Catholic, filled the Christian 
world ; and its ruins, smouldering from the so-called Ref- 
ormation, still sigh for the civilization on which its turrets 
looked when they rose a thousand years ago. 

Abbeys, like Westminster, and cathedrals, like that of 
Cologne, (founded or improved by Charlemaigne and Ed- 
ward the Confessor, whose arches continue to soar, like 
the expanding wings of angels, to the groined roof, are 
still gazed upon by modern preachers with breathless awe ; 
amazed, perhaps, that Art had honored God in " the darh ^ 
ages !" ^ 

What wonder that the Catholic church should develop 
a new and sublime architecture ? Was it not hers to 
break down the temples of paganism, and yet to gather 
the world, which she was commissioned to teach, in suit- 
able places, symbolical of Heaven ? Is she not the mother 
of European civilization, and have not her children writ- 
ten nearly all the books in the world ? Cobden one of 
England's greatest Protestant statesmen, being himself 
astonished, astonished still more his countrymen, by his 
profier to find in any biographical dictionary of great 
men, three Catholic names for every Protestant celebrity, 
and thoughtful men know that the latter, so few in num- 
ber, derive all their noble and lofty inspirations from 
Catholic sources. Even Y oMohQ, protesting against every- 
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thing holy, rises above himself (says Chateaubriand) only 
when his dramatic characters require a Christian mould. 



OTHER ARTS. 



|ft| Long before Germany had gazed upon her prodigious 

Y infant kicking in his cradle at Eisleiben ; the mariner's 
^ compass had been introduced into Europe; Roger Bacon 
w had developed electricity, and made a " talking man" — 
(P perhaps the telephone — but no Pan-Electric statesmen 
were found in the House of (Catholic) Lords to cheat poor 
A Roger at Oxford. Arabian figures had also been in- 
/ttv troduced by the Crusades. The art of navigation by sails j^ 

Y had been developed, and even steam navigation, (when ^ 
^ the wars of Protestant princes retarded civilization,) just 
T emerging from experiment to practice, became a " lost arV ' 
^ A steamer crossed the bay of Barcelona in the presence I 
^ of Charles V and his court, but the Reformation retarded I 
A everything except passion, and very little more was done ( 
(«) with steam until James Watt invented his engine, but | 
X Catholic France had opened the way for Fulton, who 
^ studied under Livingtone's patronage in St. Genevieve, 
w and doubless received from Catholic sources what had ' 
^ there been invented, but long forgotten. The University i 
^ of Paris, which instructed Fulton, had been established i 

}J^ by Charleraaigne over 500 years before Luther was born. i 
Pisa, Boulougna and Magdeburg had filled Europe with 
learning long before the art of printing sprang from the 
bosom of the Catholic church. She immediately applied 
this art to instruct and convert mankind. Aldus Manu- 
tius printed the first Polyglot; and Cardinal Ximines, at ' 
his own cost of 50,000 ducats, published at Alcada his 
Complutesian Polyglot in many languages. Even be- 
nighted Africans had read the genuine Scriptures in their 
own vernacular long before Henry VIII rejected as spu- 
rious those books of the Bible which most inculcated 
oiferings for the dead, whose treasures he wished to lavish 
on his lust. The great Cardinal, to accomplish the good 
9i 



work of giving many Bibles to mankind, drew to his i 

university the most learned men of Europe, practiced al- j 
most incredible austerities, and died a saint in the very 
year that Luther married the apostate nun, and when 

Anne Boleyn was yet an infant. ' 

Brescott, our own Protestant historian, in his " Ferdi- I 

nand and Isabella," seems to think that such a thing as I 

t piety was known before it had been monopolized by mod- | 

ern passion, and pays a glowing tribute to this great pnb- , 
lisher of Bibles. " He died," says Prescott, " at Toledo, 
Mf November 8, 1517. He lived not for himself, but for his 

^ country, and still more for his church. Without selfish- ' 

rj^ ness or loose passions, he was worthy to be a prelate of I 

P Imperial Pome, and a statesman of Imperial Spain. While ( 

^ clad in the almost regal robe of a cardinal, he still wore ( 

^ beneath it the mean coarse robe of his order, and this / 

dj) was a fit type of his life, for while the one prefigured his , 

X vast power, the other still more aptly signified the life- ' 

^ long martyrdom of a soul that longed to be free — a mar- ' 

P tyrdom, Christians tell us, that showed itself in the lines ( 

P of a noble face furrowed with care and sorrow." God ( 

^ bless such princes ! Even though the preachers denounce ( 

(jj) them, they shine as the stars forever ! ^ 

Y ASTRONOMY. ^ 

T Cardinal Ximines only built upon ancient Catholic 

¥ foundations, in the science of astronomy, when he gave the 

^ Gregorian calendar, which England and Russia rejected 

^ from religious prejudice, but have lately been compelled 

(§) to accept. The Pope had always patronized and fostered 

^ this science. Yirgilius demonstrated the rotundity of 

^ the earth in the midnight of what the preachers call " Po- 

|iK man superstition." For his piety and astronomical dis- 

T coveries he was made bishop of Madgeburg by the very 

P dignitary who, according to Jasper and other preachers, 

fP " was always agin science, and denied dat de sun do 

(8) move." 



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Before Luther apostatized, Copernicus taught at Rome, 
and left a system of astronomy which Galileo assisted 
in developing. Even his genius was also fostered by the 
Pope, but when, like a goose, he began to hiss at the Bi- 
ble and meddle with theology, the Inquisition imprisoned 
him for three days, and then shot him out with the ad- 
monition and warning: Sutor, crejntat, sutorem. — ^(See 
Jeff Davis' idea, p. 40.) 

Before the 16th century astronomy and maritime science 
had already made astonishing advances. Behold, O great 
America — even if other nations despise and spit upon 
Him — behold your true Saviour, your native home, and 
fly to the bosom of your holy mother, the Catholic Church ! 
Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed " The Navigator," 
had erected his observatory at Cape St. Vincent. Cardinal 
D' Alley had written his Imago Mundi, which instructed a 
little boy named Christopher Columbus, at Palos, in Italy! 
Tosconnelli from the tower of St. Mary's Church, in Flor- 
ence, had studied the heavens and written letters of en- 
couragement to the great discoverer. Father Juan Perez 
now pleads the cause of science and Christianity before 
Isabella, and Christopher Columbus, under the patronage 
^ of a Catholic queen, kneels down upon the shores of San 
Salvador exclaiming : 

" Lord God^ Eternal and Omnipotent, who by thy 
Divine Word hast created the heavens, the earth, and the 
sea ! Blessed and glorified he thy Name, and praised 
thy Majesty who hast deigned hy me. Thy humhle servant, 
to have that sacred Name made kiiown and preached in 
this other part of the world ! " 

Then, rising with majesty and displaying the standard 
of the Cross, he solemnly offered to God the first fruits 
of his discovery, named the island San Salvador, (Holy 
Saviour,) and gave orders for a large cross to be con- 
structed. 



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O, thou grand and beautiful and free — fair-minded 
America ! Look upon your father ; behold your mother ! 
They approach your great centennial — eighteen hundred 
and eighty-two ! Kneel thou, in humble reverence, at 
their feet ; and if miscreants dare to buffet them — but 
you know your duty ; I know your heart ! See Anarchy 
on one side, and the Catholic church on the other. Only 
two great parties now remain. Americus Yespuciirs 
comes with Columbus to gaze upon your greatness. He 
lays his hand upon your flashing sword, O, brave Ame- 
rica, and thus repeats your name — perhaps foretells your 
destiny: "America! America!! daughter of Heaven 
and child of Faith, behold your heritage ! Defend the 
Truth ! Though the kings of the earth may court the 
mob and reject the Vicar of Christ, behold, he crowns a 
young republic ! Not only your hills and valleys shout 
for joy, but hosts of angels sing your triumph, and forty 
million martyrs call you blessed !" 



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